Bulaka River languages

Bulaka River
Yelmek–Maklew
Jabga
Ethnicity: Jab (Yab)
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?

  • Bulaka River
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: bula1259[1]

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Map: The Bulaka River languages of New Guinea
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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

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,

Proto–Bulaka River
I*ŋölwe*ŋag
thou*obyou*el
s/he*ibthey*im

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bulaka River". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 1566. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782. 
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