Southern Adelbert languages

Southern Adelbert
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classification Northeast New Guinea?
  • Madang
    • West Madang
      • Southern Adelbert
Glottolog sout3148[1]

The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea.

Languages

The languages are as follows.[2]

Daniels (2012) classifies Gants with Atemble and Nend.

Recently discovered Magɨ appears to be closely related to Aisi. Magɨyi, discovered the same year, is less certain, but may also be a Sogeram language.

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "South Adelbert". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15&ndash, 66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.


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