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Hattam language

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Native to
  
Papua

Native speakers
  
16,000 (1993)

Region
  
Eastern Bird's Head

ISO 639-3
  
had

Language family
  
West Papuan ? Hatam–Mansim Hattam

Dialects
  
Moi (Moire) Tinam Miriei Adihup Uran

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 or small independent family.

References

Hattam language Wikipedia