Monumbo languages
| Monumbo | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution: | Madang Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification: | a possible primary language family |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | monu1249[1] |
The Monumbo languages, Monumbo and the closely related Lilau, constitute a small language family on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. They have for several decades been lumped into the Torricelli family 100 km to the west, but "no evidence [for this] was ever presented".[2]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Monumbo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Glottolog: Monumbo