The Northern Adelbert or Pihom–Isumrud languages are a

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of two dozen 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. It was first settled by the Germans in the 19th century. Hist ...

stock of New Guinea. The occupy the coastal northern

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 wit ...

of mountains, vs. the

Southern Adelbert languages The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea, spoken along the tributaries of the Ramu River in the watershed of the Adelbert Range. Languages The languages are as follows. * ...

, another branch of Madang. Malcolm Ross posited a " linkage" connecting the Northern Adelbert languages with the Mabuso languages, and named this group Croisilles , as the two families bracket

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(Northern Adelbert to the north, Mabuso to the south). However, Ross never claimed Croisilles was an actual language family, and other researchers have rejected the connection.

Languages

Croisilles was first posited by Malcolm Ross (1995), not as an actual language family, but as a linkage. It was a merger of Wurm's Pihom-Isumrud-Mugil and Mabuso stocks, each of which contained 25–30 languages. Pick (2017) and Usher reject the merger, and provisionally the inclusion of Mugil (Bargam), though Pick retains the name. Usher disambiguates the (non-Mabuso) family as 'Adelbert Range'.

Usher (2020)

Timothy Usher classifies the languages as follows.Adelbert Range – Isumrud Strait
(NewGuineaWorld) ;Adelbert Range – Isumrud Strait * Kowan (Isumrud Strait): Waskia, Korak (Amako) *(North) Adelbert Range ** Yamben **Omosan (Omosa River): Pal (Abasakur), Kobol (Koguman) **

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(old Isumrud proper) ***

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(Gavak) *** Brem (Bunabun), Malas (Manep) **Northwest Adelbert Range (

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) ***

Kaukombar River The Kaukomba River (Kaukomba, Kokumba, Kukumba) is a small river of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It joins Jabab Creek to form the Toto River, which enters the ocean just east of the village of Asuramba. It is located 600 km from Port Mo ...

: Mala (Pay), Miani (Maiani, Tani), Maia (Pila, Saki) ***Kumil–Timper ****

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: Bepour, Mauwake (Ulingan), Moere ****

Tiboran River The Timper River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea.Timper Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2011-07-09; database downloaded 2015-06-22 See also * List of rivers of Papua New Guinea *Tiboran River languages / Timper River languages ...

(

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): Musar; Wanambre; Kowaki, Mawak, Pamosu (Hinihon) **Mabulap–Numugen *** '' Amaimon'' (Mabulap) isolate *** Numugen River (see)

Pick (2017)

A quite similar internal classification was worked out independently by Pick (2017).
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Pick could not establish regular sound correspondences with Kobol–Pal (Omosan) or Amaimon (Mabulap), and thus leaves them out of the family. ;Northern Adelbert *Kumil–Tibor (*t- > s, *p- > f, *ŋ > zero) **Tibor -n > zero, *a > e *** Mokati (Wanambre) ***(*k- > h, *C- > ��voice Kowaki, Mawak, Pamosu, Hember Avu (Musar) ** Kumil k- *t- > , *C- > [−voice *-k > zero">��voice.html" ;"title="k- *t- > , *C- > [−voice">k- *t- > , *C- > [−voice *-k > zero Bepour, Mauwake, Moere * Kaukombar [*k- *ŋ *-n > zero">Kaukombar languages">Kaukombar [*k- *ŋ *-n > zero Mala, Miani, Maiani, Maia *Manep–Barem Maiani language">Maiani, Maia *Manep–Barem Manep (Malas) ** Barem (Brem) * Gabak (Dimir) *Numugen languages">Numugen (*ŋ > n, 6 languages) *Kowan languages">Amako–Waskia: Waskia, Korak Pick notes that Barem and Malas share pronominal markers on the verbs 'to teach' and 'to show' that are unique to those two verbs.

Phonology

Pick reconstructs the phonemes of Proto-Croisilles as, with five vowels *a *e *i *o *u.

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