Yellow River languages

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The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages, They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Namia is the most divergent Yellow River language.

Distribution

They are spoken along the Yellow River (a tributary of the Sepik) in a mountainous area of central Sandaun Province, located to the north of the Upper Sepik basin. They are located directly to the southwest of the Ram languages, another Sepik group.

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Yellow River are:

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