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Iwam languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea

Linguistic classification:
  
Sepik Upper Sepik Iwam

Glottolog:
  
iwam1260  (Iwam) amal1242  (Amal)

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.

References

Iwam languages Wikipedia