The Tamolan languages are a small

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of clearly related languages spoken in the region of the Guam River in

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Languages

The Tamolan languages are: *Tamolan ** Inapang (dialect continuum) *** Midsivindi *** Itutang (Isarikan) *** Yigavesakama **Chini–Iski *** Akrukay (Chini) *** Iski (dialect continuum) **** Romkun **** Breri Kominimung and Igana are said to also be Tamolan languages, but no data has been collected to establish that. Tamolan is classified among the

Ramu languages The Ramu languages are a family of some thirty languages of Northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by John Z'graggen in 1971 and linked with the Sepik languages by Donald Laycock two years later. Malcolm Ross (2005) classi ...

of northern

Phonemes

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:New Guinea World, Guam River
/ref> : Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a.

Pronouns

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as: : Plus 1sg object *na. Proto-Tamolan–Ataitan (Proto-Guam–Moam) is very similar, and nearly identical to Proto-Moam.

References

External links

* Timothy Usher, New Guinea World
Proto–Guam River
{{Ramu–Lower Sepik languages Tamolan–Ataitan languages Languages of Madang Province