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    The Lower Sepik a.k.a. Nor–Pondo languages are a small language family of East Sepik Province in northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family...
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  • The Ramu–Lower Sepik a.k.a. Lower Sepik–Ramu languages are a proposed family of about 35 Papuan languages spoken in the Ramu and Sepik river basins of...
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  • The Sepik–Ramu languages are an obsolete language family of New Guinea linking the Sepik, Ramu, Nor–Pondo (Lower Sepik), Leonhard Schultze (Walio–Papi)...
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    The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by...
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  • completely surrounded by the Sepik languages, it is geographically separated from the rest of the Ramu–Lower Sepik language family, of which Chambri is...
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    The Sepik (/ˈsɛpɪk/) is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the second largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly River. The majority...
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  • Yokoim, is one of the Lower Sepik languages of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in 9 villages near Chambri in Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province. A Tabriak...
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  • many loanwords from the Kopar and Adjora languages. Tayap is not related to the neighboring Lower Sepik languages, though a relationship to the more distant...
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    Torricelli and Lower Sepik-Ramu languages, phonological properties of nouns can even determine gender. Like in the Yuat and Lower Sepik-Ramu languages, nouns...
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    migration with some of the earlier languages (perhaps including the Sepik–Ramu languages) being related to the Australian languages, a later migration bringing...
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  • Watam is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. Like Bosmun, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the...
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  • Kopar is a Lower Sepik language of Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The Kopar language is spoken in Kopar village (3°51′48″S...
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  • East Sepik Province. It is a member of the Lower-Sepik language family.: 1  All 250-300 speakers of Yimas live in two villages along the lower reaches...
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  • Murik a.k.a. Nor is a Lower Sepik language spoken in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Murik ward (3°47′42″S 143°59′55″E / 3.794976°S 143.998682°E /...
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    explanation for language isolates is that they developed in isolation from other languages. This explanation mostly applies to sign languages that have arisen...
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  • with the Sepik languages by Donald Laycock two years later. Malcolm Ross (2005) classifies them as one branch of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family....
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    Dagan Mailuan Koiarian Goilalan Yareban Kwalean Manubaran Torricelli Sepik Lower Sepik-Ramu Border (also in Indonesia) Sko (also in Indonesia) Eastern Pauwasi...
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  • Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea...
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  • Papua New Guinea. The Lower Ramu languages as classified by Usher and by Foley (2018) are: Lower Ramu languages Ottilien languages Watam, Kaian Gamay (Borei)...
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  • Donald Laycock (category Linguists of Sepik languages)
    leading authorities on the languages of Papua New Guinea. He performed several pioneering surveys of the languages of the Sepik region of New Guinea. The...
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  • languages. Upper Yuat languages display more typological similarities with Trans-New Guinea than the other neighboring language families of the Sepik-Ramu...
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    languages, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact with Lower Sepik-Ramu and Sepik languages.: 298  There are three languages:...
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  • and Bosman share plural morphology with Lower Sepik (Nor–Pondo), supporting the Ramu – Lower Sepik language-family proposal. The family is named for...
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  • irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family. Bosman at Ethnologue (18th...
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  • The Arafundi languages are a small family of clearly related languages in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. They are conjectured to be related to...
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  • William A. Foley (category Linguists of Lower Sepik languages)
    Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea...
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  • languages are a group of languages in the Ramu language family. It is accepted by Foley (2018), but not by Glottolog. They are spoken in East Sepik Province...
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    for the Monumbo languages, word order in the Bogia languages is SOV, likely due to contact with Lower Sepik-Ramu and Sepik languages.: 298  Foley (2018)...
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  • phonologically using the final root segment (a feature typical of the Lower Sepik languages). The four semantically determined noun classes are: class 16: male...
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