Marangis a.k.a. Watam is a

Ramu language 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) classif ...

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. Like Bosmun, it shares a number of irregular plural markers with the

Lower Sepik languages The Lower Sepik a.k.a. Nor–Pondo languages are a small language family of East Sepik Province in northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by K Laumann in 1951 under the name Nor–Pondo, and included in Donald Laycock Do ...

, supporting the proposal of a Ramu – Lower Sepik language family. It is spoken in the two villages of: *Watam village,

Marienberg Rural LLG Marienberg Rural LLG (also Marienberg Hills Rural LLG) is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The Marienberg languages are spoken in this LLG, as well as various Lower Sepik-Ramu languages and the isolate ...

East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim D ...

() *Marangis village,

Yawar Rural LLG Yawar Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. The Lower Ramu languages (Ottilien–Misegian) are all spoken in this LLG. Wards *01. Marangis ( Marangis language speakers) *02. Kaiyan ( Kaian language s ...

Madang Province Madang is a Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capi ...

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Pronouns

The pronominal system of Watam has a four-way distinction, with there being a

paucal In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). English and many other languages present number categories of singula ...

("a few", "more than two") number for pronouns in addition to singular, dual, and plural. :

Nouns

Nominal plural formatives include: :

Verbs

Watam verbal conjugation for the verb ''ndo'' ‘to see’: :

References

{{Ramu–Lower Sepik languages Ottilien languages Languages of Madang Province Languages of East Sepik Province