Yuat languages
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| Yuat | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
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| Glottolog: | yuat1252[1] |
The Yuat languages are an independent family of six Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Sepik–Ramu proposal. However, Foley and Ross could find no lexical or morphological evidence that they are related to the Sepik or Ramu languages.
Contents
Languages
The Yuat languages proper are:
Pronouns
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Yuat are:
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I *ŋun we *amba thou *ndi you *mba s/he *wu they ?
See also
- Maramba language, a possibly spurious language often listed as Yuat.
References
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