Small family of languages of northern Papua New Guinea
For the languages of Sudan, see Taman languages.
Tama
Geographic distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea: just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province
Linguistic classification
Sepik
Middle Sepik
Tama
Glottolog
sepi1256
The Sepik languages as classified by Foley (2018)
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.
Yessan-Mayo and Mehek are the best documented Tama languages.[1]
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