Tama languages

For the languages of Sudan, see Taman languages.
Tama
Geographic
distribution:
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Sepik

  • Tama
Glottolog: sepi1256[1]

The Tama languages are a small family of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea,

AyiPasi, Pahi, Mehek, Kalou, Yessan-Mayo.

They are generally classified among the Sepik languages.

References

  1. 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. 1566. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782. 


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