Yellow River languages

Yellow River
Geographic
distribution
Yellow River, central Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationSepik
Glottologyell1247

The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages,[1]

Namia (Namie), Ak, and Awun.

They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea.

Namia is the most divergent Yellow River language.[2]

  1. ^ Yellow River, New Guinea World
  2. ^ Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.