The Mabuso languages are a small
family
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of closely related languages in New Guinea. They were linked with the
Rai Coast languages in 1951 by
Arthur Capell in his
Madang family, which Wurm (1975) included in his
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum.
Malcolm Ross reconstructed the pronouns of proto-Mabuso and noted that "the integrity of the Mabuso group is fairly obvious".
Languages
*
Hanseman languages (see)
*South Mabuso
**Kokon:
Girawa,
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(Bemal)
**Munit–Gum
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Munit
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Gum languages
The Gum languages are a small group of closely related languages in New Guinea.
The languages are:
* Amele
*Central Gum: Bau, Gumalu, Sihan
*North Gum: Isebe, Panim
References
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Mabuso languages
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(see)
References
*Z'graggen, J.A. ''A comparative word list of the Mabuso languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea''. D-32, xvi + 199 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980.
{{Madang languages
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Central Madang languages