Makayam language

Makayam
	Tirio
	Aturu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	1,300 (2003)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Fly River (Anim) Tirio Makayam; ; ;
Dialects	Giribam;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aup
Glottolog	maka1315[2]

Tirio AKA Makayam (Makaeyam) AKA Aturu (Adulu, Atura) is Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. The Giribam 'dialect' may be a distinct language.

Pronouns are:

	sg	pl
1	no-gao	gai-ga
2	o-gao	zo-gao
3	igi	i-ga

No-, o-, zo-, i- may reflect proto-Trans–New Guinea *na, *ga, *ja, *i.

References

↑ Makayam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Makayam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Makayam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Makayam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.