Sko, also spelled Skou, is a small language family spoken by about 7,000 people along the Vanimo coast of Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea, with at least one member language extending across the border into Indonesian Papua. Its languages are usually grouped into four branches, the Piore River languages, the Serra Hills languages, the Western Skou languages and the I'saka language. Sko languages are unusual among Papuan languages for being tonal, with every language in the family carrying contrastive tone; Vanimo, for example, distinguishes high, mid and low tones. A tentative link to a wider Northwest Papuan grouping has been proposed.
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RegionVanimo coast of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with adjacent areas of Indonesia's Papua province 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusPartially reconstructed. Malcolm Ross (2005) reconstructs a set of pronoun forms for Proto-Skou (Proto-Sko), and a lexical cognate set for the word for louse traces to Proto-Sko *nipi (compiled by Dryer 2022); other forms, such as dual-number marking, are explicitly not reconstructable for the proto-language from the available data. 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Skou Languages
WikipediaLead paragraph
The Sko or Skou languages are a small language family spoken by about 7000 people
Pronouns section
The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Skou are,
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