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*wanwe two(*na-n)we*na-m
thou*yɨ-nyou 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. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ram". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Ross (2005)
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.


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