Northeast Huon
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
The Northeast Huon Peninsula family, also known as the Dallman family, consists of three languages, Nomu, Kinalaknga (Kinalakna) and Kumukio, spoken around the Dallman river in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province.(Hooley and McElhanon 1970: 1070-1071, q.v. p. 1081, Suter 2018: 7, q.v. p.4.)
Subclassification
The internal classification of Northeast Huon Peninsula is as follows:
Northeast Huon Peninsula
Nomu
Kinalaknga-Kumukio
Kinalaknga
Kumukio
Hooley and McElhanon (1970: 1071) give lexicostatistical figures of 60% between Nomu and Kinalakna and 70% between Kinalakna and Kumukio.
Sources
McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970) 67 Trans New Guinea comparisons include examples from Nomu, Kinalakna and Kumukio
McElhanon (2012) 815 comparative terms for Nomu, Kinalaknga and Kumukio
Suter (2018) comparative Dallman grammar including (pp. 58-62) Dallman object-marking verbs and (pp. 201-203) Dallman desinences
History of classification
None of the Northeast Huon Peninsula languages were considered in McElhanon's (1967) first subclassification of Huon. They are introduced in Hooley and McElhanon (1970: Hooley and McElhanon (1970: 1069, 1070-1071) which add them along with Sialum to a Northern Family subgroup of the North-Central Huon Stock which had previously consisted only of Ono (1967: 5-9.) McElhanon (1975: 531) avoided the subdivisions of earlier works in favor of an undifferentiated Western Huon Family, in which all these languages were placed alongside those of Huon's other western subgroups, a classification which was reiterated in McElhanon (1984: 15.).
Suter (2018: 2, 5, 7) places these three languages together in a Dallman family, which he holds to be immediately coordinate to Kabwum (i.e. Northwet Huon Peninsula) in a Cromwell subgroup of Western Huon.
Historical phonology
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Proto-Northeastt Huon Peninsula had … consonants and … vowels as follows:
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… initial consonants …
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| Northeast Huon | Nomu | Kinalaknga | Kumukio |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
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… medial consonants …
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| Northeast Huon | Nomu | Kinalaknga | Kumukio |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||
| *… |
… final consonants …
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| Northeast Huon | Nomu | Kinalaknga | Kumukio |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||
| *… |
… vowels and diphthongs …
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| Northeast Huon | Nomu | Kinalaknga | Kumukio |
| McElhanon | McElhanon | McElhanon | |
| *… | |||
| *… |
Pronouns
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Verbal morphology
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Loans to and from neighboring languages
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