Paniai Lakes
Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute
Situation
The Paniai Lakes family, also known as Wissel Lakes or Wissel Lakes-Kemandoga, consist of at least four languages spoken in the western highlands of Indonesia's Papua province.
Subclassification
The internal classification of Paniai Lakes is as follows:
Paniai Lakes
Moni
Central Paniai Lakes
Ekagi
Auye
Wodani
According to Moxness (2002: 6-7,) Dao is a dialect of Auye.
Larson and Larson (1972: 87-88) provide lexicostatistical figures as follows:
| Moni | Wodani | Wodani | Wodani | Ekagi | Ekagi | ||
| U. Mbij. | Keman. | L. Mbij. | Paniai L. | Tigi Lake | |||
| Moni | — | 41.8 | 40.1 | 38.6 | 27.5 | 28.6 | |
| Wodani | U. Mbij. | 41.8 | — | — | — | 51.51 | 51.1 |
| Wodani | Keman. | 40.1 | — | — | — | 51.6 | 50.5 |
| Wodani | L. Mbij. | 38.6 | — | — | — | 52.8 | 51.7 |
| Ekagi | Paniai L. | 27.5 | 51.1 | 51.6 | 52.8 | — | — |
| Ekagi | Tigi Lake | 28.6 | 51.1 | 50.5 | 51.7 | — | — |
Sources
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Historical phonology
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Pronouns
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Verbal morphology
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