User:Alexlin01/West Papuan

Exploring the West Papuan linguistic area.

Pronominal Prefixes/Clitics
Comparing West Makian, Proto-Nuclear North Halmahera, and several West Papuan languages (stealing heavily from Reesink's The eastern Bird's Head languages compared). The most consistent match is PNNH and Tehit (not even West Makian).

Possible Cognates

 * PNNH *oḋom ("to eat") compared with 🇨🇬 and Mansim dem ("to eat"). Possibly also with 🇨🇬.
 * PNH *otir ("canoe") compared with 🇨🇬 and Mansim ot ("canoe").
 * PNNH *oZik ("to bathe") compared with 🇨🇬 (Imian dialect)
 * PNNH *N- (nominalizer) may be compared with a k- (or "unspecified velar plosive") nominalizer found in Sougb, g- in Meyah, and gi- in Hatam (Reesink).