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 | |
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| Sogeram and Tomul Rivers | |
| Geographic distribution | Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Northeast New Guinea?
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| Glottolog | sout3148 |
The languages are as follows.[1][2]
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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| Croisilles (Adelbert Range) |
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| Kalam | |||||||||||||||||
| Mabuso |
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| Mindjim | |||||||||||||||||
| Rai Coast (South Madang) |
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| Southern Adelbert |
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| Yaganon | |||||||||||||||||
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