The Mindjim languages are a small

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of closely related languages spoken in the

Mindjim River The Mindjim River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea. Mindjim Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2012-01-17; database downloaded 2015-06-22 See also *List of rivers of Papua New Guinea *Mindjim River languages The Mindjim languages ...

area of

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. They were linked with the

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in 1951 by

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in his

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family, but separated out again by Timothy Usher.New Guinea World, Mindjim River
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Languages

The languages are, * Anjam (Bom) * Bongu *

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* Sam (Songum)

References

{{Madang languages Languages of Papua New Guinea Central Madang languages