Bulaka River languages
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| Bulaka River | |
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| Yelmek–Maklew Jabga |
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| Ethnicity: | Jab (Yab) |
| Geographic distribution: |
New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
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| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | bula1259[1] |
Map: The Bulaka River languages of New Guinea
The Bulaka River languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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The Bulaka River languages are a pair of closely related Papuan languages, Yelmek and Maklew, on the Bulaka River in Indonesian West Papua. They are ethnically Yab (Jab); their speech is Yabga (Jabga). Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family.
Pronouns[edit]
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,
- Proto–Bulaka River
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I *ŋöl we *ŋag thou *ob you *el s/he *ib they *im
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bulaka River". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 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.
