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Marangis language

Language in the Ramu family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Marangis a.k.a. Watam is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea. Like Bosmun, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the Lower Sepik languages, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family.

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It is spoken in the two villages of:[2][3]

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Pronouns

The pronominal system of Watam has a four-way distinction, with there being a paucal ("a few", "more than two") number for pronouns in addition to singular, dual, and plural.[4]

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Nouns

Nominal plural formatives include:[4]

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Verbs

Watam verbal conjugation for the verb ndo ‘to see’:[4]

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