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Tama languages
Small family of languages of northern Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the languages of Sudan, see Taman languages.
The Tama languages are a small family of three clusters of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea, spoken just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province. They are classified as subgroup of the Sepik languages. Tama is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group.
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Tama | |
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Geographic distribution | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea: just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province |
Linguistic classification | Sepik
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Glottolog | sepi1256 |
![]() The Sepik languages as classified by Foley (2018) |
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Yessan-Mayo and Mehek are the best documented Tama languages.[1]