Makayam language

Not to be confused with Tiriyó language.
Makayam
Tirio
Aturu
Native to Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 1,300  (2003)[1]
Trans–New Guinea

  • Tirio

    • Tirio–Bitur–Were
      • Makayam
Dialects
Giribam
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aup
Glottolog maka1315[2]

Tirio AKA Makayam (Makaeyam) AKA Aturu (Adulu, Atura) is Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Pronouns are:

sgpl
1 no-gaogai-ga
2 o-gaozo-gao
3 igii-ga

No-, o-, zo-, i- may reflect proto-Trans–New Guinea *na, *ga, *ja, *i.

References

  1. ↑ Makayam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Makayam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.