Yellow River languages

Yellow River
Geographic
distribution		 Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification Sepik
  • Yellow River
Glottolog yell1247[1]

The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Namia (Namie), Ak, and Awun.

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*wanwe two*ɨ-twe*ɨ(m, n)
thou*nɨyou two(*kə-, *wə-p)you(*kə-m, *wə-m)
he*[ə]rəthey two*tə-pthey*tə-m
she*ɨ

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yellow River". 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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