Tama languages
For the languages of Sudan, see Taman languages.
| Tama | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
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| Glottolog: | sepi1256[1] |
The Tama languages are a small family of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea,
They are generally classified among the Sepik languages.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sepik Tama". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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