Hattam language

Hattam
Borai
Spoken in	Papua
Region	Eastern Bird's Head
Native speakers	16,000 (1993)
Language family	West Papuan ? Hattam
Dialects	Moi (Moire) Tinam Miriei Adihup Uran
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`had`

Hattam, also spelled Hatam, Atam and also known as Borai or Mansim, is a divergent language of New Guinea. It is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns, Ethnologue (2009) removed it as a language isolate.

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.