Tama languages
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Geographic
distributionSepik River basin, Papua New Guinea: just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province
distributionSepik River basin, Papua New Guinea: just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province
| Tama | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea: just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province |
| Linguistic classification | Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | sepi1256 |
 The Sepik languages as classified by Foley (2018) | |
The Tama languages are a small family of three clusters of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea, spoken just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province. They are classified as subgroup of the Sepik languages. Tama is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group.
Yessan-Mayo and Mehek are the best documented Tama languages.[1]
Usher (2020) classifies the Tama languages as follows,[2]
- Tama
Foley (2018), following Donald Laycock, provides the following classification.[1]
- Tama