Walman language should not be confused with Valman, Iran.
Walman | |
Nativename: | Koroko |
States: | Papua New Guinea |
Region: | Sandaun Province |
Date: | 2003 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Papuan |
Fam1: | Torricelli |
Fam2: | Wapei |
Iso3: | van |
Glotto: | valm1241 |
Glottorefname: | Walman |
Walman (or Valman) is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Matthew S. Dryer and Lea Brown of the University at Buffalo are currently writing a grammar of Walman. They have also published a paper showing that the word for 'and' in Walman that connects two nouns (as in "John and Mary") is actually a verb, with the first conjunct as subject and the second conjunct as object.[1]