The Yam languages, also known as the Morehead River languages, are a family of Papuan languages spoken by up to 3,000 people south and west of the Fly River, across the Morehead Rural local-level government area of Western Province in Papua New Guinea and the Merauke Regency of Indonesia's South Papua province. The family comprises three branches, Yey, Nambu and Tonda, and is treated as a primary language family in its own right.
Facts
RegionSouth and west of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea, and Indonesian Western New Guinea (South Papua) 1 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusPartially reconstructed. Malcolm Ross (2005) reconstructs a set of pronoun forms for Proto-Yam (Proto-Morehead-Upper Maro); the family's broader external relationships, including a proposed link to a Trans-Fly-Bulaka River family, remain contested (Evans 2012). 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Yam Languages
Wikimedia FoundationIntroduction, second sentence
They include many of the languages south and west of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea and Indonesian Western New Guinea (South Papua).
Languages section, first sentence
Yam languages are spoken by up to 3,000 people on both sides of the border in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
Pronouns section
The pronouns Ross (2005) reconstructs for the family are,
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