Nukuma languages

Nukuma
Geographic
distribution:		 Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Sepik

Glottolog: nuku1256[1]

The Nukuma languages are a small family of clearly related languages:

Kwoma, Kwanga, and Seim.

They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross places them in an Middle Sepik branch of that family.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nukuma". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  • 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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