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 classification | Northeast New Guinea?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | sout3148 |
Languages
editThe languages are as follows.[1][2]
- Tomul River (~ Josephstaal)
- Sogeram River (~ Wanang) (see)
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
edit- ^ New Guinea World, Sogeram and Tomul Rivers
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "South Adelbert". Glottolog 4.3.
Further reading
edit- Ross, Malcolm. 2014. Proto-South-Adelbert. TransNewGuinea.org.
- Z'graggen, J.A. A comparative word list of the Southern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. D-33, xvi + 113 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980. doi:10.15144/PL-D33