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
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
References
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