Iwam languages
| Iwam | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: |
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| Glottolog: |
iwam1260 (Iwam)[1] amal1242 (Amal)[2] |
The Iwam languages are a small family of clearly related languages,
- May River Iwam and Sepik Iwam,
and perhaps Amal. They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross places them in an Upper Sepik branch of that family.
Footnotes
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Iwam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Amal". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
References
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
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