Geographic
distribution: New Guinea | Glottolog: kala1404 | |
Linguistic classification: Trans–New Guinea
Madang
Kalam | ||
The Kalam languages are a small family of languages in the Madang branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages of New Guinea.
The languages are:
Kalam–Tai, Kobon.They are famous for having perhaps the smallest numbers of lexical verbs of any languages in the world, with somewhere in the range of 100 to 120 verbs in the case of Kobon.
Ross classifies the Rai Coast languages as the closest relatives of Kalam, and suggests that Kalam may be part of that family.
References
Kalam languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA