Hanseman languages

Hanseman
Hansemann Range
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classification Madang
Glottolog hans1243[1]

The Hanseman languages are a group of relatively closely related languages in New Guinea. "Closely related" is relative to the situation in New Guinea. Ethnologue notes that Wagi, for example, may be most closely related to Nobonob, yet they are only 30% lexically similar.

The languages are:[2]

References

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


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