The Sepik–Ramu languages are a hypothetical language family linking the Sepik, Ramu, Nor–Pondo (Lower Sepik), Leonhard Schultze (Walio–Papi), and Yuat families, together with the Taiap language isolate, and proposed by Donald Laycock in 1973.
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Sepik–Ramu would consist of a hundred languages of the Sepik and Ramu river basins of northern Papua New Guinea, but spoken by only 200 000 people in all.
Languages of India | Indo-European languages | Celtic languages | Slavic languages | Algonquian languages | Turkic languages | Bantu languages | Romance languages | Berber languages | Australian Aboriginal languages | Germanic languages | Ramu | Goidelic languages | Arawakan languages | North Germanic languages | Indigenous languages of the Americas | Austroasiatic languages | Indo-Aryan languages | Sepik | Polynesian languages | Northwest Caucasian languages | Munda languages | Mongolic languages | French-based creole languages | Songhay languages | Semitic languages | Dené–Yeniseian languages | Common European Framework of Reference for Languages | Visayan languages | Tupian languages |
While studying at the University of London, Tuzin became interested in Sepik cultures and decided to go to the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), where he worked with the famous and controversial social anthropologist Derek Freeman.
It is only known to exist in the former Sepik Province (now East Sepik and Sandaun Provinces) and Morobe Province, where it grows in rainforests in the foothills and low areas of mountains.
It is commonly found in the Markham, Ramu, and Sepik Rivers; their preferred habitat includes clear rainforest streams, swamps, pools, and lagoons abundant in vegetation and submerged logs.
Mongol–Langam languages, a language family of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Musa boman is a species of wild banana (genus Musa), native to the West Sepik (Sandaun) Province of Papua New Guinea, in the eastern portion of the island of New Guinea.
In 1885 he was the first European to discover the Sepik river, and he named it after Kaiserin Augusta, the German Empress.
Pei language or Pai, a Sepik language spoken of Papua-New Guinea
In the central highlands and the Sepik valley there is a dark morph; males of this form are mostly blackish with a grey tail and the females are mostly dark brown.
The locality is the birthplace of Ernest Chinnery (5 November 1887- 17 December 1972), an Australian anthropologist and public servant who worked extensively in Papua New Guinea and visited communities along the Sepik river.