Abelam language

Abelam
Ambelas
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sepik River basin
Ethnicity Abelam
Native speakers
(44,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 abt
Glottolog ambu1247[2]

Abelam (or Abulas) is the most prevalent of the Ndu languages of Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea.[3] Dialects are Maprik, Wingei, Wosera-Kamu, Wosera-Mamu.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Abelam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ambulas". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. OLAC resources in and about the Ambulas language

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