Tags: Language.
Valman is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. Recent literature calls the language Walman. 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.