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Encyclopedia > Brahman languages
Location of Madang Province
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Location of Madang Province

Brahman is a proposed family of languages spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Madang has many of Papua New Guineas highest peaks, its most active volcanos, and its biggest mix of languages (175). ...


Family division

Brahman consists of 4 languages:

  1. Biyom
  2. Faita
  3. Isabi
  4. Tauya

Genetic relations

Wurm classified Brahman under the Madang-Adelbert Range superstock of the Trans-New Guinea phylum. Ross, while keeping the languages in the Madang family, broke up Brahman, placing Faita in Southern Adelbert but Tauya and Biyom in Rai Coast. Trans-New Guinea is a family of languages spoken mainly in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. ...


See also

  • Trans-New Guinea languages

 

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