Iwam languages
| Iwam | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea |
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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
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Iwam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Amal". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
References
- Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. 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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