Valman language

Valman
Koroko
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province
Native speakers
 1,700  (2003)[1]
Torricelli

  • Wapei

    • Valman
Language codes
ISO 639-3 van
Glottolog valm1241[2]

Valman is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Recent literature calls the language Walman. Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo are currently writing a grammar of Walman. They have also published a paper showing that the word for 'and' in Walman that connects two nouns (as in "John and Mary") is actually a verb, with the first conjunct as subject and the second conjunct as object.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Valman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Valman". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Brown, Lea, and Matthew S. Dryer (2008) The verbs for 'and' in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Language 84 (3), 528–565.