Alamblak languages

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Alamblak
Eastern Sepik Hill
Geographic
distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification Sepik
Subdivisions
Glottolog east2496 [1]

The Alamblak languages are a small family of two closely related languages,

Kaningra and Alamblak. [2]

They are generally classified among the Sepik Hill languages of the Sepik family of northern Papua New Guinea.

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Sepik Hill". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. East Sepik Hills, New Guinea World

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