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Valman language

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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