Yellow River languages

Yellow River
Geographic
distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification

Sepik

  • Yellow River
Glottolog yell1247[1]

The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

Namia (Namie), Ak, and Awun.

They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Yellow River are:[2]

I *wan we two *ɨ-t we *ɨ(m, n)
thou *nɨ you two (*kə-, *wə-p) you (*kə-m, *wə-m)
he *[ə]rə they two *tə-p they *tə-m
she

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yellow River". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Ross (2005)


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