Walman language

Walman
Walman
Koroko
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Sandaun Province
Native speakers	1,700 (2003)
Language family	Torricelli Wapei Walman; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	van
Glottolog	valm1241
ELP	Walman

Walman (or Valman) is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo are currently writing a grammar of Walman. They have also published a paper showing that the word for 'and' in Walman that connects two nouns (as in "John and Mary") is actually a verb, with the first conjunct as subject and the second conjunct as object.^[2]

^ Walman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Brown, Lea, and Matthew S. Dryer (2008) The verbs for 'and' in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Language 84 (3), 528–565.

[e18-1] Walman at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Brown, Lea, and Matthew S. Dryer (2008) The verbs for 'and' in Walman, a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Language 84 (3), 528–565.

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