Walman language
Walman (or Valman) is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo are currently writing a grammar of Walman. They have also published a paper showing that the word for 'and' in Walman that connects two nouns (as in "John and Mary") is actually a verb, with the first conjunct as subject and the second conjunct as object.[3]
| Walman | |
|---|---|
| Koroko | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province |
Native speakers | 1,700 (2003)[1] |
Torricelli
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | van |
| Glottolog | valm1241[2] |
References
- Walman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Walman". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Brown, Lea, and Matthew S. Dryer (2008) The verbs for 'and' in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Language 84 (3), 528–565.
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