Arapesh languages


The Arapesh languages are several closely related Arapesh people of Papua New Guinea. They are spoken in eastern Sandaun Province and northern East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Arapesh languages are among a better-studied of Papuan languages as well as are almost distinctive in their gender systems, which contain up to thirteen genders noun classes with noun-phrase concordance. Mufian, for example, has 17 noun a collection of things sharing a common attribute for count nouns plus two extra noun classes, i.e. proper title and place names. See that article for examples.

Pronouns


Pronouns in Arapesh and other related Torricelli languages: