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Tama
Geographic
distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationSepik
  • Middle Sepik
    • Tama
Glottologsepi1256

The Tama languages are a small family of three clusters of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea,

They are classified among the Sepik languages.

References

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.