Amele language

Amele
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
(5,300 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aey
Glottolog amel1241[2]

Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.

Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes.[3]

References

  1. Amele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Amele". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. http://wals.info/chapter/59


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