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Mongol–Langam languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
New Guinea

Glottolog:
  
mong1343

Linguistic classification:
  
Ramu – Lower Sepik? Ramu? Mongol–Langam

The Mongol–Langam languages are a language family of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Languages

According to Summer Institute of Linguistics data from 2003, the member languages had the following number of speakers:

  • Mongol, 340 speakers
  • Langam, 410 speakers
  • Yaul, 1,210 speakers

    • Classification

    Their classification is somewhat unclear. Donald Laycock (1973) noted that the Mongol–Langam languages mark nouns for pluralisation, like the Lower Sepik languages (Nor–Pondo languages) and Yuat languages, and also that the lexicon also shows many resemblances to Yuat languages, while pronouns are similar to the Grass languages (Ramu). Malcolm Ross (2005) accepts them as Ramu languages based on their pronouns. However Ethnologue (2009) keeps them as an independent family.

    References

    Mongol–Langam languages Wikipedia
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