Linguistic classification Sepik
Upper Sepik | Subdivisions Wogamusin
Iwam
Abau | |
Geographic
distribution Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea Glottolog iwam1259 (Iwam–Wogamus)
abau1245 (Abau) | ||
The Upper Sepik languages are a family of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by Donald Laycock in 1956, which he included in his Sepik family in 1965. Foley (2005) does not the unity family, but Ross (2005) reconstructs proto-Upper Sepik pronouns.
Pronouns
Ross reconstructs two sets of pronouns for proto–Upper Sepik. These are the default set (Set I), and a set with "certain interpersonal and pragmatic functions" (table 1.27):
References
Upper Sepik languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA