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The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea, spoken along the tributaries of the Ramu River in the watershed of the Adelbert Range.
| Southern Adelbert | |
|---|---|
| Sogeram and Tomul Rivers | |
| Geographic distribution | Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Northeast New Guinea?
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | sout3148 |
Languages
The languages are as follows.[1][2]
- Tomul River (~ Josephstaal)
- Sogeram River (~ Wanang) (see)
In earlier classifications, such as that of Wurm, the Tomul River languages plus the Sikan languages were called "Josephstaal", while the rest of the Sogeram family was called "Wanang".
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