Grass languages

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Grass
Keram
Geographic
distribution:		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification: Ramu – Lower Sepik
Subdivisions:
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The Grass AKA Keram languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Laycock (1973) noted that Banaro was lexically divergent, and therefore grouped it with the Grass family in a higher-level Grass stock,[1] a position accepted by Pawley (2005).[2] The inclusion of Kambot is no longer accepted.

The Grass family is generally classified among the Ramu languages of northern Papua New Guinea.

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. 
  1. ↑ Donald C. Laycock, 1973. 'Sepik languages: checklist and preliminary classification'. Pacific linguistics, Series B, Issue 25. Australian National University, Dept. of Linguistcs.
  2. ↑ Andrew Pawley, 2005, Papuan pasts
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