Porapora languages
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| Porapora River | |
|---|---|
| core Grass Porapora River | |
| Geographic distribution | East Sepik Province and Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Ramu
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | agoa1234 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
The Porapora languages (alternatively the core Grass or Porapora River languages) are a pair of closely related languages in the Ramu language family, Gorovu and Adjora (Abu), spoken along the border of East Sepik Province and Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Foley classifies them as part of the Grass group of languages, but Usher break up the Grass languages. Foley (2018) included Aion (Ambakich) as well,[1] but it has since been shown to be one of the Keram languages.
Phonemes
[edit | edit source]Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2]
*m *n *ŋ *p *t *s *k *mb *nd [*ndz] *ŋg *w *ɾ *j *ɣ
Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a.
Pronouns
[edit | edit source]Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2]
singular dual plural 1st person *[ŋg]u *aŋgʉ *ani 2nd person *ŋu *uŋgʉ *uni 3rd person *mV ? *mV-nʉ
Adjora has 1SG na, but that derives from an oblique form.
References
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- ^ a b New Guinea World, Porapora River
External links
[edit | edit source]- Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–Porapora River