Ethnicity: Jab (Yab) Subdivisions: Yelmek
Maklew | Geographic
distribution: New Guinea Glottolog: bula1259 | |
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Linguistic classification: Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
Bulaka River | ||
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,
References
Bulaka River languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA