Wogamus languages

Wogamus
Geographic; distribution	Wogamush River, western East Sepik Province, in the Upper Sepik River basin of Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Sepik Middle Sepik Tama Wogamus; ; ;
Glottolog	woga1248[1]

The Wogamus languages are a pair of closely related languages,

Wogamusin and Chenapian.[2]

They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross and William A. Foley (2018)[3] place them in the Upper Sepik branch of that family.

The Wogamus languages are spoken along the banks of the Wogamush River and Sepik River in western East Sepik Province, just to the east of the Iwam languages.

Noun classes

Wogamus languages have noun classes reminiscent of those found in Bantu languages. Noun classes in Wogamusin and Chenapian are listed below, with Wogamusin -um ‘three’ and Chenapian -mu ‘three’ used as examples.[3]

Class no.	Semantic category	Wogamusin prefix	Chenapian prefix	Wogamusin example	Chenapian example
1	humans	s(i)-	s(i)-	s-um	si-mu
2	higher animals: dogs, pigs, etc.	r-	gw-	r-um	gw-umu
3	plants, trees, vines, etc.	b-	b-	b-um	b-umu
4	no specific pattern	h-	n-	h-um	n-əmu
5	no specific pattern	ŋgw-	kw-	ŋgw-um	kw-umu

Footnotes

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wogamusin-Chenapian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Chenapian–Wogamusin, New Guinea World
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.

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References

Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wogamusin-Chenapian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[2] Chenapian–Wogamusin, New Guinea World

[Foley-Sepik-3] 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.