Gum languages

Gum
Geographic
distribution:
New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Trans–New Guinea

Glottolog: gumm1240[1]

The Gum languages are a small group of closely related languages in New Guinea. Malcolm Ross in his 2005 classification of TNG left them in the Mabuso family, but this was abandoned in Ethnologue 16, which placed them directly under Croisilles.

The languages are Amele, Bau, Gumalu, IsebePanim, Sihan.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gum". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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