The Kayagar languages are a small
family
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of four closely related
Trans–New Guinea languages
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spoken around the
Cook River in Province of
South Papua
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,
Indonesia
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:
[New Guinea World, Gondu River]
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* Atohwaim (Kaugat)
* Gondu River
** Kayagar (Kaygir)
** Tamagario (Arare–Pagai)
***Yogo Yogo may refer to:
* YoGo - an Australian snack
* Yogo sapphire - a variety of sapphire found in Yogo Gulch, Montana
* Yogo, Shiga - a town in Japan
* Yogo (yoga) - a children's exercise based on yoga featured on the program '' Waybuloo''
* Yogo Isl ...
('Tamagario')
Proto-language
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[
:
]
Basic vocabulary
Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:[
:
]
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970) and Voorhoeve (1971, 1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Gondu River
* (ibid.
Atohwaim
{{Papuan languages
Languages of Western New Guinea
Cook River–Kolopom languages