Iwam languages

Iwam
Geographic
distribution:
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Sepik

Glottolog: iwam1260  (Iwam)[1]
amal1242  (Amal)[2]

The Iwam languages are a small family of clearly related languages,

May River Iwam and Sepik Iwam,

and perhaps Amal. They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross places them in an Upper Sepik branch of that family.

Footnotes

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

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