Bulaka River | |
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Yelmek–Maklew Jabga |
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Ethnicity | Jab (Yab) |
Geographic distribution |
New Guinea |
Linguistic classification |
Trans-Fly – Bulaka River ?
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | bula1259 |
Map: The Bulaka River languages of New Guinea
The Bulaka River languages
Trans–New Guinea languages
Other Papuan languages
Austronesian languages
Uninhabited
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The Bulaka River languages are a pair of closely related Papuan languages, Yelmek and Maklew, on the Bulaka River in Indonesian West Papua. They are ethnically Yab (Jab); their speech is Yabga (Jabga). Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly – Bulaka River family.
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for the family are,