Native to Papua New Guinea Native speakers 1,700 (2003) Glottolog valm1241 | Region Sandaun Province ISO 639-3 van | |
Language family Torricelli
Wapei
Valman |
Valman is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Recent literature calls the language Walman. Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo are currently writing a grammar of Walman. They have also published a paper showing that the word for 'and' in Walman that connects two nouns (as in "John and Mary") is actually a verb, with the first conjunct as subject and the second conjunct as object.
References
Valman language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA