The Kapauri–Sause (Kapori–Sause) languages form a small
language family spoken along the middle
Taritatu River in the
Jayapura Regency of
Papua, Indonesia. They are two languages,
Kapauri (Kapori) and
Sause, which are not particularly close.
Classification
There is a history of linking at least Kapauri to the
Kaure languages Kaure may refer to:
* Kaure language
Kaure is a Papuan language of West Papua. It is spoken in the villages of Lereh, Harna, Wes, Masta, and Aurina.
Narau is either a dialect or a closely related language. It is known from a short word list in ...
(see
Kaure–Kapori languages Kaure–Kapori is an obsolete language-classification proposal that linked two language families,
*Kapauri–Sause languages
*Kaure–Kosare languages
The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family spoken along the Nawa River
...
). However, they show no particular affiliation, and Kapauri appears to be closer to
Kwerba. Usher demonstrated a connection instead with another erstwhile isolate, Sause, together forming a branch of Kwerbic.
[Kapauri–Sause at New Guinea World]
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A partial reconstruction of proto-Kapauri–Sause can be found there.
Proto-language
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows. Apparent gaps may be due to poverty of data (e.g., there are /p/, /ɸ/ and /ɡ/ in the languages, but as of 2020 they have not been reconstructed for the protolanguage):[
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Pronouns
Pronouns are reconstructed as follow.[
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Basic vocabulary
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[
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]
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto-Kapauri–Sause
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Languages of Indonesia
Kwerbic languages