Tama languages

For the languages of Sudan, see Taman languages.
Tama
Geographic
distribution:		 Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Sepik

  • Tama
Glottolog: sepi1256[1]

The Tama languages are a small family of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea,

Ayi–Pasi, Pahi, Mehek, Kalou, Yessan-Mayo.

They are generally classified among the Sepik languages.

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sepik Tama". 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.