Hattam language

Hattam
Native to	Papua
Region	Eastern Bird's Head
Native speakers	(16,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	West Papuan East Bird's Head Hatam–Mansim Hattam; ; ;
Dialects	Moi (Moire); Tinam; Miriei; Adihup; Uran;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	had
Glottolog	hata1243[2]

Hattam (also spelled Hatam, Atam) is a divergent language of New Guinea. Apart from Mansim (Borai), formerly listed as a dialect, it is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns, Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a language isolate^[1] or small independent family.^[2]

References

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

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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[e18-1] 1 2 Hattam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hatam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.