Hatam–Mansim is a small language family of New Guinea, consisting of two languages:
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Hatam
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Mansim (Borai)
Ross (2005) tentatively classified Hatam as a branch of the
West Papuan family, based on similarities in pronouns (he did not consider Mansim), but ''
Glottolog
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute fo ...
'' continues to list Hatam–Mansim as an independent family. Following Reesink (2002), ''Glottolog'' lists Mansim as a language distinct from Hattam: "comparisons of old wordlists (e.g. von der Gabelentz & Meyer 1882) readily confirm this difference."
[Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices]
See also
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Mantion–Meax languages
The Mantion–Meax or (South)East Bird's Head languages are a language family of three languages in the "Bird's Head Peninsula" of western New Guinea, spoken by all together 20,000 people.
Classification
East Bird's Head stock (3 languages)
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References
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East Bird's Head languages
Languages of western New Guinea