Pahoturi languages

The Pahoturi River languages are a small family of Papuan languages spoken around the Pahoturi. This family includes eight language varieties including Agöb, Em, Ende, Idan, Idi, Idzuwe, Kawam, and Taeme, which are spoken in the Pahoturi River area south of the Fly River, just west of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages. Idzuwe is no longer spoken. Ross tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family, though more recent work has classified Pahoturi River as an independent family within the region.
Some Pahoturi River speakers were originally hunter-gatherers, but have recently shifted to becoming gardeners.

Classification

Wurm and Ross suggest that the Pahoturi languages may be related to the Tabo language just north of the Fly delta. However, they present no evidence, and the pronouns do not match.
Evans and colleagues classify the Pahoturi River languages as an independent language family.

Languages

Five of the varieties have traditionally been grouped into the following two language groups:

Agöb, Ende, and Kawam
Idi and Taeme

Preliminary work on the language family suggests that these varieties form a dialect chain. It is assumed that Em is more closely related to Agob and Ende, while Idan and Idzuwe are more closely related to Idi and Taeme.
Pahoturi River languages and respective demographic information listed by Evans are provided below.

Phonemes

Usher reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are:
Proto-Pahoturi River
Lindsey lists the following pronouns for each of the language varieties in the family.

Case	English	Agob	Em	Ende	Kawam	Idi	Taeme
Nominative	I	ŋəna	ŋəna	ŋəna	ŋəna	ŋən	ŋən
Nominative	thou	boŋo	boŋo	boŋo	buŋo	bæ	bæ
Nominative	s/he	bo	bogo	bogo	bo	bo	bo
Nominative	we exclusive	ŋumi	ŋumi	ŋəmi	ŋəmi	ŋəmi/bi	bi
Nominative	we inclusive	ibi	ibi	ibi	ibi	jɪbi	jəbi
Nominative	you	bibi	bibi	bibi	bibi	bæ	bæ
Nominative	they	ubi	ubi	ubi	ubi	bo/wɪbi	bo/ubi
Accusative	I	ŋənam	ŋənam	ŋənəm	ŋonom	bom	ŋənəm
Accusative	thou	bæm	bæm	bam	bæm	babom	babom
Accusative	s/he	obom	obom	obom	obom	obom	obom
Accusative	we exclusive	ŋənam	ŋumim	ŋəmim	ŋəmim	bim	ŋəmim
Accusative	we inclusive	ibom	ibam	ibim	ibim	jəbim	jɪbim
Accusative	you	bæm	bæm	bibim	bibim	bibim	bibim
Accusative	they	obam	obæm	ubim	ubim	ubim/wəbim	ubim
Dative	I	ŋɵmɽe	ŋəmɽe	ŋəmɽe	ŋəmre	blæ	ŋəmʎæ
Dative	thou	bæɽe	babɽe	babɽe	bæbre	bæblæ	bæbʎe
Dative	s/he	obɽe	obɽe	obɽe	obo	oblæ	obʎe
Dative	we exclusive	ŋɵmra	ŋumra	ŋəmira	ŋəmira	bli	ŋəmʎi
Dative	we inclusive	ibra	ibra	ibra	ibra	jəbli	jɪbʎi
Dative	you	bæra	babra	bibra	bibra	bibli	bibʎi
Dative	they	obra	obra	ubira	ubira	ubli	ubʎi
Possessive	I	ŋɵmo	ŋəmo	ŋəmo	ŋomo	bo/bænæ	ŋəmo
Possessive	thou	bəne	bəne	bəne	bəne	bənæ	bənæ
Possessive	s/he	obo	obo	obo	obo	obo/obænæ	obo
Possessive	we exclusive	ŋəma	ŋəma	ŋəma	ŋəma	ba	ŋəma
Possessive	we inclusive	iba	iba	iba	iba	jəba	jəba
Possessive	you	bina	bina	bina	bina	bəna	bəna
Possessive	they	oba	oba	oba	oba	oba	wəba

Documentation status

The Pahoturi River languages are all under various states of documentation. The following table lists some general lexical, grammatical, textual, and typological resources that have been identified for each of the currently spoken Pahoturi River languages.

Resource	Agob	Em	Ende	Idan	Idi	Kawam	Taeme
wordlist	1	1	4	N	2	3	1
Swadesh list	Y	N	N	N	Y	N	N
Dictionary	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	N

Resource	Agob	Em	Ende	Idan	Idi	Kawam	Taeme
	N	N	Elicited the verbs in the Q, not online	N	Elicited the verbs in the Q, not online	N	N
	N	N	5	N	Y	N	N
	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	N
	N	N	Y	N	N	N	N
	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	Y
PR Verbal Number questionnaire	N	N	Y	N	Y	N	N