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Hattam
Borai
Native to Papua
Region Eastern Bird's Head
Native speakers 16,000  (1993)
Language family
West Papuan ?
  • Hattam
Dialects
Moi (Moire)
Tinam
Miriei
Adihup
Uran
Language codes
ISO 639-3 had

Hattam, also spelled Hatam, Atam and also known as Borai or Mansim, is a divergent language of New Guinea. It is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns, Ethnologue (2009) removed it as a language isolate.

References [edit]

  • Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide, Jack Golson, eds. Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782. 
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