Bulaka River languages
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| Bulaka River | |
|---|---|
| Yelmek–Maklew | |
| Geographic distribution: | New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: |
Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
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| Subdivisions: | |
| Ethnologue code: | 17-1620 |
The Bulaka River languages are a small family of Papuan languages. They are a pair of languages, Yelmek and Maklew, on the Bulaka River in Indonesian West Papua. Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family.
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,
- Proto–Bulaka River
I *ŋöl we *ŋag thou *ob you *el s/he *ib they *im
See also
References
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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