Molof language

Molof
	Poule
Region	Papua
Native speakers	230 (2005)[1]
Language family	Unclassified, possibly Pauwasi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	msl
Glottolog	molo1262[2]

Molof (Ampas, Poule) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by about 200 people. Wurm (1975) placed it as an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea, but Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it. Usher tentatively suggests it may be one of the Pauwasi languages. Søren Wichmann (2013)^[3] tentatively considers it to be a separate, independent group.

References

↑ Molof at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Molof". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.

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[e18-1] Molof at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Molof". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Wichmann2013-3] Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.