Porapora languages
Members of the Ramu language family
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The Porapora languages (alternatively the core Grass or Porapora River languages) are a pair of closely related languages in the Ramu language family, Gorovu and Adjora (Abu), spoken along the border of East Sepik Province and Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. Foley classifies them as part of the Grass group of languages, but Usher break up the Grass languages. Foley (2018) included Aion (Ambakich) as well,[1] but it has since been shown to be one of the Keram languages.
Geographic
distributionEast Sepik Province and Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
distributionEast Sepik Province and Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationRamu
- Ramu proper
- Tamolan–Ataitan
- Porapora River
- Tamolan–Ataitan
| Porapora River | |
|---|---|
| core Grass Porapora River | |
| Geographic distribution | East Sepik Province and Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Ramu
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | agoa1234 |
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:[2]
*m *n *ŋ *p *t *s *k *mb *nd [*ndz] *ŋg *w *ɾ *j *ɣ
Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a.
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[2]
singular dual plural 1st person *[ŋg]u *aŋgʉ *ani 2nd person *ŋu *uŋgʉ *uni 3rd person *mV ? *mV-nʉ
Adjora has 1SG na, but that derives from an oblique form.