Orya–Tor languages

The Tor family, named after the Tor River, is clearly established. Its closest relative appears to be Orya. Stephen Wurm (1975) linked Orya and the Tor languages with the Lakes Plain languages, forming a branch of his Trans–New Guinea phylum. Clouse (1997) found no evidence of such a connection. Malcolm Ross (2005) linked them instead with part of another erstwhile branch of TNG in a Tor–Kwerba proposal, and Usher makes a broadly similar proposal. Glottolog accepts only the link with Orya as having been demonstrated. ==Languages==

Foley (2018) Foley (2018) provides the following classification. }} }} }} }} Foley considers the inclusion of Sause within the Tor family to be questionable due to insufficient lexical evidence. ==Proto-language==

Phonemes Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory tentatively as follows: : The stop *d is marginal and only occurs initially. *ɾ does not occur initially. : Pronouns The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Orya–Tor are, : Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns of the East Tor Coast branch as: : Basic vocabulary Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are: : ==References==