Hatam–Mansim languages

Hatam–Mansim
Geographic
distribution:
Eastern Bird's Head, Indonesian Papua
Linguistic classification:

West Papuan ?

  • Hatam–Mansim
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: hata1242[1]

Hatam–Mansim is a small language family of New Guinea, consisting of two languages:

Ross (2005) tentatively classified Hatam as a branch of the West Papuan family, based on similarities in pronouns (he did not consider Mansim), but Glottolog continues to list Hatam–Mansim as an independent family.[1] Following Reesink (2002), Glottolog lists Mansim as a language distinct from Hattam: "comparisons of old wordlists (e.g. von der Gabelentz & Meyer 1882) readily confirm this difference."[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Hatam–Mansim". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
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