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The Middle Sepik languages comprise diverse groups of
Sepik languages The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a language family, family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik River, Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than prese ...
spoken in northern
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. The Middle Sepik grouping is provisionally accepted by Foley (2018) based on shared innovations in pronouns, but is divided by ''Glottolog''. They are spoken in areas surrounding the town of Ambunti in
East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim D ...
. Unlike most other Sepik languages, Middle Sepik languages do not overtly mark gender on nouns, although the third-person singular pronoun does distinguish between masculine and feminine genders (e.g., Proto- Ndu *nd- and *l- ).


Languages

The languages are:Middle Sepik River
NewGuineaWorld *Middle Sepik languages **Ma–Tama ***
Nukuma languages The Nukuma languages are a small language family, family of three clearly related languages: *Kwoma language, Kwoma *Kwanga–Mende **Kwanga language, Kwanga **Seim language, Seim They are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northe ...
(see) *** Tama languages (see) **Ndu–Yerekai ***Ndu–Nggala **** Nggala **** Ndu languages (see) *** Yerakai (Garamambu)


References

* {{Sepik languages Sepik languages