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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.

Tama
Geographic
distribution
Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea: just to the south of Nuku town in eastern Sandaun Province
Linguistic classificationSepik
Glottologsepi1256
The Sepik languages as classified by Foley (2018)

Yessan-Mayo and Mehek are the best documented Tama languages.[1]


Languages


Usher (2020) classifies the Tama languages as follows,[2]

Tama

Foley (2018), following Donald Laycock, provides the following classification.[1]

Tama

Kalou is actually related to Amal.[3]


Phonology


The Tama languages distinguish /r/ and /l/, unlike many other Papuan languages that have only one liquid consonant.[1]


Vocabulary comparison


The following basic vocabulary words are from Laycock (1968),[4] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[5]

glossMehekPahiYessan-Mayo[6]Yessan-Mayo (Warasai dialect)
head terfataraʔweytara
ear namrawapraywanwan
eye lakwoniaʔweyla; ləla
nose wiliŋkifikihinwiraŋkɨ; raŋkihaŋki
tooth mpipiaʔweylər; lirrir
tongue tawultafəkitawləkawul
leg suwahuwatowa; warəsowa
louse nunumnunumnɨ; niniʔ
dog walawaʔaywalawale
pig for
bird fenrefeydeyapapu
egg lakwoyaʔweyyen; yɨnyan
blood kefunefumnapnap
bone yefayefayaha
skin likifuhumwas
breast mukumuwimu; mukwmukw
tree moːmuymemeʔ
man tamatamatama; taməkama
woman tawatawataːka
sun nampulnapuyyabəl; yampəlyampəl
moon nekwanefʔalup; lɨyflüp
water okwuoʔwiok; okwokw
fire kiriirʔik-er; kərkər
stone arkwohijopeypapapə
eat a(m)
one wurɨ
two lisifufeskes

References


  1. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  2. Tama, New Guinea World
  3. Amal–Kalou, New Guinea World
  4. Laycock, Donald C. 1968. Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea. Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66.
  5. Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
  6. Foley, W.A. "Linguistic prehistory in the Sepik-Ramu basin". In Pawley, A., Attenborough, R., Golson, J. and Hide, R. editors, Papuan Pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. PL-572:109-144. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2005.

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[fr] Langues tama

Les langues tama (ou langues sepik tama) sont une famille de langues papoues parlées en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans le nord-ouest du pays.



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