Yellow River languages
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| Yellow River | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Yellow River, central Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | yell1247 |
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The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages,[1]
They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.
Namia is the most divergent Yellow River language.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]They are spoken along the Yellow River (a tributary of the Sepik) in a mountainous area of central Sandaun Province, located to the north of the Upper Sepik basin. They are located directly to the southwest of the Ram languages, another Sepik group.
Pronouns
[edit | edit source]The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Yellow River are:[3]
I *wan we two *ɨ-t we *ɨ(m, n) thou *nɨ you two (*kə-, *wə-p) you (*kə-m, *wə-m) he *[ə]rə they two *tə-p they *tə-m she *ɨ
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Yellow River, New Guinea World
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- ^ Ross (2005)
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