Namia (Namie, Nemia) is a

Sepik language The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have ...

spoken in

Namea Rural LLG Namea Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The Yellow River languages are spoken in this LLG. Wards *01. Abrau *02. Alendami *03. Akwom *04. Augom *05. Alai *06. Ameni (Namia language speakers) *07. ...

Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the a ...

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. It goes by various names, such as ''Edawapi, Lujere, Yellow River''. Language use is "vigorous" (''Ethnologue''). In

, it is spoken in Ameni (), Edwaki, Iwane (), Lawo, Pabei (), and Panewai villages in

, and in the Wiyari area. It is also spoken in 19 villages of

Yellow River District Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In the R ...

East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 433,481 people (2010 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. History Cherubim Dambui was appointed as East Sepik's first premier ...

Dialects

Namie dialect groups are: *Ailuaki: spoken in Yegarapi (), Yaru (), and Norambalip () villages *Amani: spoken in Augwom (), Iwani (), Pabei (), Panewai, and Tipas () villages *Wiari: spoken in Alai (), Nami (), Worikori (), Akwom (), and Naum () villages *Lawo: spoken in Mokwidami (), Mantopai (), Yawari (), and Aiendami () villages

Phonology

Namia has only 10 phonemic consonants: : /t/ and /r/ are in nearly perfect complementary distribution with each other. There are 6 vowels in Namia: :

Grammar

Unlike other

Sepik languages The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have ...

, Namia has an inclusive-exclusive distinction for the first-person pronoun, which could possibly be due to diffusion from

Torricelli languages The Torricelli languages are a family of about fifty languages of the northern Papua New Guinea coast, spoken by about 80,000 people. They are named after the Torricelli Mountains. The most populous and best known Torricelli language is Arapesh, ...

. Inclusive-exclusive first-person pronominal distinctions are also found in the

Yuat languages The Yuat languages are an independent family of five Papuan languages spoken along the Yuat River in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. They are an independent family in the classification of Malcolm Ross, but are included in Stephen Wurm's ...

and

Grass languages The Grass languages are a group of languages in the Ramu language family. It is accepted by Foley (2018), but not by Glottolog. They are spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, with a small number of speakers also located just across th ...

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Foley (2005) and Laycock (1968), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: :

References

{{Languages of Papua New Guinea Yellow River languages Languages of East Sepik Province Languages of Sandaun Province