Yellow River languages
Language family
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The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages,[1]
Geographic
distributionYellow River, central Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
distributionYellow River, central Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationSepik
- Upper Sepik
- Yellow River
| Yellow River | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Yellow River, central Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | yell1247 |
They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.
Distribution
They are spoken along the Yellow River (a tributary of the Sepik) in a mountainous area of central Sandaun Province, located to the north of the Upper Sepik basin. They are located directly to the southwest of the Ram languages, another Sepik group.
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Yellow River are:[3]
I *wan we two *ɨ-t we *ɨ(m, n) thou *nɨ you two (*kə-, *wə-p) you (*kə-m, *wə-m) he *[ə]rə they two *tə-p they *tə-m she *ɨ