Yuat languages

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The Yuat languages are an independent family of a dozen Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Sepik-Ramu proposal. However, there is no lexical or morphological evidence that the families are related.

1 Classification
2 Pronouns
3 See also
4 Reference

[edit] Classification

The Yuat languages are Changriwa, Kyenele, Mekmek, Miyak, Biwat (Mundugumor), Bun.

[edit] Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Yuat are,

I	*ŋun	we	*amba
thou	*ndi	you	*mba
s/he	*wu	they	?

[edit] See also

Papuan languages

[edit] Reference

Malcom Ross (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15-66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.