The Tamolan languages are a small
family of clearly related languages spoken in the region of the
Guam River
The Guam River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea. Guam Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2012-01-17; database downloaded 2015-06-22
See also
*List of rivers of Papua New Guinea
* Guam River languages
*Moam River
The Moam River is ...
in
Madang Province,
Papua New Guinea.
Languages
The Tamolan languages are:
*Inapang (dialect continuum)
**
Midsivindi
**
Itutang (Isarikan)
**
Yigavesakama
*Chini–Iski
**
Akrukay (Chini)
**Iski (dialect continuum)
***
Romkun
***
Breri
Kominimung and
Igana
Igana is an arrondissement in the Plateau department of Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Pobè. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin
An ins ...
are said to also be Tamolan languages, but no data has been collected to establish that.
Tamolan is classified among the
Ramu languages of northern
Papua New Guinea.
Phonemes
Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:
[New Guinea World, Guam River]
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:
Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a.
Pronouns
Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:[
:
Plus 1sg object *na.
Proto-Tamolan–Ataitan (Proto-Guam–Moam) is very similar, and nearly identical to Proto-Moam.
]
References
External links
* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Guam River
{{Ramu–Lower Sepik languages
Tamolan–Ataitan languages
Languages of Madang Province