Yuat | |
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Geographic distribution |
New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
Glottolog | yuat1252 |
The Yuat languages are an independent family of six Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Sepik–Ramu proposal. However, Foley and Ross could find no lexical or morphological evidence that they are related to the Sepik or Ramu languages.
The Yuat languages proper are:
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Yuat are: