Social:Hatam–Mansim languages

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Hatam–Mansim
Hatam–Moi Brai
Geographic
distribution
Eastern Bird's Head, Indonesian Papua
Linguistic classificationWest Papuan
  • (extended) East Bird's Head
    • Hatam–Mansim
Subdivisions
  • Hatam
  • Mansim (Borai)
Glottologhata1242[1]

Hatam–Mansim is a small language family of New Guinea, consisting of two languages:

  • Hatam
  • 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 continues to list Hatam–Mansim as an independent family.[1] 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."[2]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Hatam–Mansim". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hata1242. 
  2. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". in Andrew Pawley. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.