- Source: Wogamus languages
The Wogamus languages are a pair of closely related languages, Wogamusin and Chenapian.
They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross and William A. Foley (2018) 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.
Vocabulary comparison
The following basic vocabulary words are from the Trans-New Guinea database. The Wogamusin data is from Foley (2005) and Laycock (1968), and the Chenapian data is from SIL field notes (1983).
The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. tawö, taw for "woman") or not (e.g. dəmiaʔ, tetak for "louse").
Footnotes
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.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Wogamus languages
- Sepik languages
- Upper Sepik languages
- Wogamush River
- Chenapian language
- List of language families
- Iwam language
- Wogamusin language
- Tama languages
- Sepik–Ramu languages
