Ataitan Languages
The Ataitan languages, also known as the Tanggu or Moam River languages, are a small family of clearly related languages spoken in the region of the Moam River in Papua New Guinea. They are, * Andarum (Kaje) * Tanguat * Igom + Tangu (Tanggu) Z'graggen named the family "Ataitan" as an acronym of the language names. Usher names it after the local river. They are classified among the Ramu languages of 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 .... Phonemes Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: : Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a. Pronouns Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as: : Plus 1sg object *na. Proto-Tamolan–Ataitan (Proto-Guam–Moam) is nearly identical, except for not having the ɣsuffixes, and the final vowels of th ...
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Moam River
The Moam River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea.[ Moam River] in [ Geonames.org (cc-by)]; post updated 2011-07-09; database downloaded 2015-06-22 See also *List of rivers of Papua New Guinea *Moam River languages *Guam River References

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