| Yellow River | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Yellow River, centralSandaun Province,Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | yell1247 |
TheYellow River languages are a smallfamily of clearly related languages,[1]
They are classified among theSepik languages of northernPapua New Guinea.
Namia is the most divergent Yellow River language.[2]
They are spoken along theYellow River (a tributary of theSepik) in a mountainous area of centralSandaun Province, located to the north of the UpperSepik basin. They are located directly to the southwest of theRam languages, another Sepik group.
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Yellow River are:[3]
| 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 | *ɨ |