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The Greater Awyu languages, known in earlier and more limited classifications as Awyu–Dumut or Awyu–Ndumut, are a family of perhaps a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in eastern West Papua. Six of the languages are sufficiently attested for a basic description; it is not clear how many of the additional names (in parentheses below) may be separate languages. ==Classification== The classification below is based on de Vries et al. (2012), who used morphological innovations to determine relatedness, as these can be obscured by loans.〔Lourens de Vries, Ruth Wester, & Wilco van den Heuvel. 2012. "The Greater Awyu language family of West Papua", pp. 269–312 of Hammarström & van den Heuvel (eds.), ''History, Contact and Classification of Papuan Languages.'' (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia Special Issue). Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.〕 The arrangement of the Awyu languages is especially tentative. *Awyu–Dumut * * Awyu (Avio, Auyu) branch: Aghu (Jair), Shiaxa (Jenimu, Edera), Pisa (Asuwe) * * Dumut (Ndumut) branch: Mandobo (Kaeti), Wambon * *Ndeiram: Kombai–Wanggom * *? Sawi (Sawuy) *Becking–Dawi * *Komyandaret–Tsaukambo * *Korowai Sawi is classified on pronominal data, as the morphological data used for the rest of the family is not available. The pronouns of the Awyu–Dumut branch are: : The suffix *-p and the change of the final TNG *a vowel to *u do not appear in the possessive pronouns: '' *na, *ga, *ya/wa, *na-ga, *ga-ga, *ya-ga''. Various other languages can be found in the literature. Ario (Sumagaxe)〔Multitree (qgz )〕 is listed in Wurm, Foley, etc., but not in the University of Amsterdam survey and has been dropped by ''Ethnologue''. ''Ethnologue'' lists a 'Central Awyu', but this is not attested as a distinct language (U. Amsterdam). In general, the names in ''Ethnologue'' are quite confused, and older editions speak of names from Wurm (1982), such as ''Mapi, Kia, Upper Digul, Upper Kaeme'', which are names of language surveys along the rivers of those names, and may actually refer to Ok languages rather than to Awyu. Bayono-Awbono may turn out to be Greater Awyu, or perhaps Ok. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greater Awyu languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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