Ram languages
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Geographic distribution: | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
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Glottolog: | ramm1241[1] |
The Ram languages are a small family of clearly related languages,
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
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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