Duna–Pogaya languages

The Duna–Pogaya languages are a proposed small family of Trans–New [Guinea languages] in the classification of Voorhoeve, Ross (linguist)|Ross] and Usher, consisting of two languages, Duna and Bogaya, which in turn form a branch of the larger Trans–New Guinea family. Glottolog, which is based largely on Usher, however finds the connections between the two languages to be tenuous, and the connection to TNG unconvincing.

Language contact

has had significant influence on Bogaya due to the socioeconomic dominance of Duna speakers over the less populous, less influential Bogaya speakers. Duna also has much more influence from Huli at 27–32 percent lexical similarity with Huli, while Duna has only 5–10 percent.

Pronouns

Pronouns are:

Vocabulary comparison

The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve, Shaw, and Shaw, as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database.
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate or not.

Evolution

reflexes of proto-Trans–New Guinea etyma are:

amu ‘breast’ < *amu
konane ‘ear’ < *kandk(V]
kuni ‘bone’ < *kondaC