Ram languages

Ram
Geographic
distribution:
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Sepik

  • Ram
Glottolog: ramm1241[1]

The Ram languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Karawa, Pouye (Bouye), and Awtuw.

They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Ram are:[2]

I *wan we two (*na-n) we *na-m
thou *yɨ-n you two (*yɨ-n/*a-n) you *yɨ-m/*a-m
he *ra (*atə-) they two (*ra-p, *atə-) they (*ra-m, *atə-m)
she (*ta-i)

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ram". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Ross (2005)


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