The Ram languages are a small group of 3 languages spoken in

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. They are spoken directly to the northeast of the

Yellow River languages The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages, : Namia (Namie), Ak, and Awun. They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Namia is the most divergent Yellow River language. Distr ...

and directly to the south of the

Wapei languages The Wapei languages constitute a branch of the Torricelli language family according to Laycock (1975) (quoted from Foley 2018). Glottolog does not accept this grouping. They are spoken in mountainous regions of eastern Sandaun Province, Papua New ...

, both of which are also Sepik groups. ''Ram'' is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group. The languages are, * Awtuw *Karawa–Pouye ** Karawa ** Pouye (Bouye) They are classified among the

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 ...

of northern

. Awtuw is the best documented Ram language.

Pronouns

The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Ram are: :

Vocabulary comparison

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

References

* {{Sepik languages Languages of Sandaun Province Yellow–Wanibe languages