The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

of languages in the

Madang Madang (old German name: ''Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen'') is the capital of Madang Province and is a town with a population of 27,420 (in 2005) on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. History Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai was probably the first Eur ...

stock of

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

, spoken along the tributaries of the

Ramu River The Ramu River is a major river in northern Papua New Guinea. The headwaters of the river are formed in the Kratke Range from where it then travels about northwest to the Bismarck Sea. Along the Ramu's course, it receives numerous tributaries ...

in the watershed of the

Adelbert Range Adelbert Range is a mountain range in Madang Province, north-central Papua New Guinea. The highest point of the mountains is at . The Northern Adelbert languages and Southern Adelbert languages are spoken in the region. Fauna and flora As with ...

Languages

The languages are as follows.New Guinea World, Sogeram and Tomul Rivers
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Tomul River The Tomul River is a river in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Tomul Riverat Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 1994-01-06; database downloaded 2015-06-22 The Tomul River languages (Southern Adelbert languages) are spoken in the watershed. Se ...

Josephstaal Josephstaal Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Madang Province, 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 isla ...

) **

Osum The Osum is a river in southern Albania, one of the source rivers of the Seman. It is long and its drainage basin is . Its average discharge is . Its source is in the southwestern part of the Korçë County, near the village of Vithkuq at an a ...

(Utarmbung) ** Wadaginam **Pomoikan: Anam (Pondoma), Anamgura (Ikundun) – Moresada *

Sogeram River Sogeram River is a river in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It empties into the Ramu River at . The Sogeram River languages are spoken in the Sogeram River watershed.Usher, Timothy. 2020Sogeram River ''New Guinea World''. See also *Sogeram R ...

(~ Wanang) (see) In earlier classifications, such as that of Wurm, the Tomul River languages plus the

Sikan languages The Sogeram languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea. They are named after the Sogeram River.Usher, Timothy. 2020Sogeram River ''New Guinea World''. In earlier classifications, such as that of Wurm, most of the Soger ...

were called "Josephstaal", while the rest of the Sogeram family was called "Wanang".

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