Kalam language
| Kalam | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province, Western Highlands Province |
Native speakers | 15,000 (1991)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kmh |
| Glottolog |
kala1397[2] |
Kalam is a Kalam language of Papua New Guinea. It is closely related to Kobon, and shares many of the features of that language. It has an elaborate pandanus avoidance register that has been extensively documented.
References
- ↑ Kalam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kalam (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Andrew Pawley and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. A dictionary of Kalam with ethnographic notes. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.