The Ataitan languages, also known as the Tanggu or Moam River languages, are a small
family of clearly related languages spoken in the region of the
Moam River
The Moam River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea. Moam Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2011-07-09; database downloaded 2015-06-22
See also
*List of rivers of Papua New Guinea This is a list of rivers of Papua New Guinea.
In alph ...
in Papua New Guinea. They are,
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Andarum (Kaje)
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Tanguat
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Igom +
Tangu (Tanggu)
Z'graggen named the family "Ataitan" as an acronym of the language names. Usher names it after the local river. They are classified among the
Ramu languages of northern
Papua New Guinea.
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:
[New Guinea World, Moam River]
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:
Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a.
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[
:
Plus 1sg object *na.
Proto-Tamolan–Ataitan (Proto-Guam–Moam) is nearly identical, except for not having the ɣsuffixes, and the final vowels of the 1du and 2du forms is not certain. This may not consider the ]Porapora languages
The Porapora languages (alternatively the core Grass or Porapora River languages) are a pair of closely related languages in the Ramu language family, Gorovu and Adjora (Abu), spoken along the border of East Sepik Province and Madang Province i ...
, however.
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Moam River
{{Ramu–Lower Sepik languages
Tamolan–Ataitan languages
Languages of Madang Province