Keram languages

The Keram languages of New Guinea are part of the Ramu family. They are the Mongol–Langam languages and a pair of languages sometimes thought to belong to the Grass family. (See Grass languages for the history of classification.)

Keram
Keram River
Geographic
distribution		Keram River watershed, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationRamu–Keram
  • Keram
Subdivisions
GlottologNone

Foley (2018) classifies most of them in the Grass branch of the Ramu family,[1] while Usher classifies them as coordinate with the Ramu family, leaving a reduced number of languages in the Grass branch.[2]

They are named for the Keram River.

Languages

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns of East Keram and West Keram as follows:[3]

East KeramWest Keram
sgplsgpl
1 *ni*anɨ*ni*an
2 *[o/u]*[o/u]nɨ*u*un
3 *ma*aLɨ*mɨ, *ma-*ndɨ
gollark: They probably *won't* be if the perception is that they will just do it arbitrarily and repeatedly for ages and it just slows down things at best.
gollark: Anyway, people have seemingly been mostly willing to engage in obeying lockdown when there was a clearish danger and it seemed like a temporary onetime thing.
gollark: Congratulations, you handed power over to the test designers?
gollark: Also, the more times they end up doing them the less willing people will be to actually abide by the rules.
gollark: Doing lockdowns has quite a wide range of problematic knock-on effects and should be avoided if possible.

See also

References
  1. 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 Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  2. West Keram River – NewGuineaWorld
  3. East Keram River, West Keram River
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