Geographicdistribution: 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:
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(Text) CC BY-SA