Monumbo languages
| Monumbo | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: | Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | a possible primary language family |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | monu1249[1] |
The Monumbo languages, Monumbo and the closely related Lilau, constitute a small language family on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. They have for several decades been lumped into the Torricelli family 100 km to the west, but "no evidence [for this] was ever presented".[2]
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Monumbo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Glottolog: Monumbo
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