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Monumbo languages

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Subdivisions:
  
Monumbo Lilau

Glottolog:
  
monu1249

Geographic distribution:
  
Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

Linguistic classification:
  
a possible primary language family

The Monumbo languages, Monumbo and the closely related Lilau, constitute a small language family on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. They have for several decades been lumped into the Torricelli family 100 km to the west, but "no evidence [for this] was ever presented".

References

Monumbo languages Wikipedia