Yellow River languages
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| Geographic distribution: | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
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| Glottolog: | yell1247[1] |
The Yellow River 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–Yellow River are:[2]
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
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yellow River". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Ross (2005)
- 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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