The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.
Languages The languages are as follows:New Guinea World, Papuan Peninsula
Dagan (Meneao Range) Owen Stanley Range Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau) Kwalean (Humene–Uare) Manubaran (Mount Brown) Mailu–Yareban Yareban (Musa River) Bauwaki Mailuan (Cloudy Bay)
They have in common ya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG *gi.
Pronouns Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:New Guinea World, Owen Stanley Range
! !!colspan=2|Owen Stanley !! colspan=2|Meneao (Dagan) |- ! !!sg!!pl!!sg!!pl |- !1 |*na||?||*n[e/a]||*nu |- !2 |*ga||*ja||*g[e/a]||*j[e/a] |- !3 |*e (?)||*ie (?)||*me||*mV
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