Gants language

Gants
Gaj
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
(1,900 cited 1981)[1]
Madang
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gao
Glottolog gant1244[2]

Gants, or as spelled in the language itself, Gaj, is a Madang language of Papua New Guinea.

The classification of Gants in uncertain. Usher identifies it with the Kalam languages, Daniels (2012) with the Sogeram languages. Both groups belong to the Madang family.

References

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


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