Southeast Papuan languages

The Southeast Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea that are part of the Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.

Languages
The languages are as follows:


 * Dagan (Meneao Range)
 * Owen Stanley Range
 * Koiarian (Koiari – Managalas Plateau)
 * Kwalean (Humene–Uare)
 * Manubaran (Mount Brown)
 * Mailu–Yareban
 * Yareban (Musa River)
 * Bauwaki
 * Mailuan (Cloudy Bay)

They have in common ya for 'you' (plural) instead of proto-TNG *gi.

Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:

! !!colspan=2|Owen Stanley !! colspan=2|Meneao (Dagan) ! !!sg!!pl!!sg!!pl !1 !2 !3
 * na||?||*n[e/a]||*nu
 * ga||*ja||*g[e/a]||*j[e/a]
 * e (?)||*ie (?)||*me||*mV
 * }

Lexical comparison
The lexical data below is from the Trans-New Guinea database and Usher (2020).