Ramu languages
The Ramu languages are a family of some thirty languages of Northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by John Z'graggen in 1971 and linked with the Sepik languages by Donald Laycock two years later. Malcolm Ross (2005) classifies them as one branch of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family. Z'graggen had included the Yuat languages, but that now seems doubtful.
| Ramu | |
|---|---|
| Keram and Ramu Rivers | |
| Geographic distribution | Ramu and Keram watersheds, Western Madang Province and Eastern East Sepik Province, Northern Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Ramu–Lower Sepik or a primary language family |
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | ramu1234 (reduced) |
With no comprehensive grammar yet available for any of the Ramu languages, the Ramu group remains one of the most poorly documented language groups in the Sepik-Ramu basin.
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