The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a language family, family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea.

Languages

All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm's 1975 Trans–New Guinea languages, Trans–New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit, retaining Kwerba within Capell's 1962 Dani-Kwerba languages, Dani–Kwerba proposal, for example. Foley (2018) classifies the Orya–Tor and Kwerbic languages together, as Tor–Kwerba. Usher (2020) adds Nimboran and Mawes, naming the expanded family Foja Range, after the Foja Mountains, Foja mountain range that passes through all four branches of the family.New Guinea World
/ref> *Orya–Tor languages, Orya–Tor *Nimboran languages, Nimboran *''Mawes language, Mawes'' *West Foja Range languages, West Foja Range (Greater Kwerbic) **Isirawa language, Isirawa **Massep language, Masep **Kapauri–Sause languages, Kapauri–Sause **Apauwar–Kwerba (Kwerbic) ***Apauwar Coast languages, Apauwar Coast ***Kwerba languages, Kwerba

Typological overview

Even though grammatical gender is present in Tor-Kwerba languages, there is no overt gender marking on nouns.

Pronouns

Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba independent pronouns are: :

Cognates

Reconstructed proto-Tor-Kwerba words that are widely distributed throughout the family (Foley 2018): * * 'eye' * * 'leg' * * 'louse' * * 'sky' * * ~ * 'tree'

References

External links

Tor-Kwerba languages database at TransNewGuinea.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Foja Range languages Foja Range languages, Northwest Papuan languages Language families