The Gogodala–Suki or Suki – Aramia River languages are a small

language family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics ...

of Papua New Guinea, spoken in the region of the Aramia River.

Languages

The languages are: * Gogodala–Suki family ** '' Suki'' language ** Gogodala (

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) branch: *** Gogodala *** Ari *** Waruna Gogodala–Suki languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans (2018) are provided below. :

Proto-language

Phonology

The reconstructed sound system is,Usher, Timothy. 2020
Suki-Aramia River
''NewGuineaWorld''. It is unclear if there were phonemes *w or *j distinct from *u and *i.

Pronouns

: : ( and is zero.)

Lexicon

Proto-Suki–Aramia (i.e., Proto-Gogodala–Suki) lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are: :

Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970), Voorhoeve (1970), and Reesink (1976), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database. The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. ''atogi'', ''ato'', ''atu'' for “woman”) or not (e.g. ''mɛnəpila'', ''poso'', ''tamki'' for “tooth”). :

Evolution

Gogodalic-Suki formed a branch of

Trans–New Guinea languages Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive Language family, family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as Western New Guinea, parts of Indone ...

in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Possible reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are: Gogodala language: *''omo'' ‘breast’ < *amu *''magata'' ‘mouth, jaw’ < *maŋgat *''mele-pila'' ‘tongue’ < *mele-mbilaŋ *''imu'' ‘eye’ < *(ŋg,k)amu *''mi'' ‘louse’ < *iman, *niman *''kadepa'' ‘sun’ < *kand(a,e)pa *''ila'' ‘tree, fire’ < *inda *''na''- ‘eat’ < *na- *''mana''- ‘sit, stay’ < *mVna-

Suki language Suki is a Gogodala-Suki language spoken by about 3500 people several miles inland along the Fly River in southwestern Papua New Guinea. Overview Suki is primarily spoken in six villages of the Western Province: Gwaku (), Iwewi, Ewe, Gwibaku () ...

: *''gigoa'' ‘

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’ < *ku(y)a *''na''- ‘eat’ < *na-

References

External links

* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Suki – Aramia River
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gogodala-Suki languages Papuan Gulf languages Language families Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)