Southern Adelbert languages

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The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea, spoken along the tributaries of the Ramu River in the watershed of the Adelbert Range.

Southern Adelbert
Sogeram and Tomul Rivers
Geographic
distribution
Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationNortheast New Guinea?
  • Madang
    • West Madang
      • Southern Adelbert
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologsout3148

Languages

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The languages are as follows.[1][2]

In earlier classifications, such as that of Wurm, the Tomul River languages plus the Sikan languages were called "Josephstaal", while the rest of the Sogeram family was called "Wanang".

References

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  1. ^ New Guinea World, Sogeram and Tomul Rivers
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "South Adelbert". Glottolog 4.3.

Further reading

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