Brahman languages

Brahman
(obsolete)
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

  • Madang–Adelbert Range
    • Adelbert Range
      • Brahman
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: None

Brahman is an old proposed language family of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea that consisted of 4 languages: Biyom, Faita, Isabi, Tauya.[1]

Genetic relations

John Z'graggen (1971, 1975) classified Brahman in his Madang–Adelbert Range family, which Stephen Wurm (1975) included in Trans–New Guinea. Ross (2005) broke up Brahman, placing Faita in Southern Adelbert but Tauya and Biyom in Rai Coast, though all three remain in the wider Madang–Adelbert family, and Isabi among the Goroka languages.

References

  1. Brahman, in the 15th edition of Ethnologue