Tamolan languages

Tamolan
Tamolan
Guam River
Geographic; distribution	Guam River, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Ramu Ramu proper Tamolan–Ataitan Tamolan; ; ;
Language codes
Glottolog	tamo1242

The Tamolan languages are a small family of clearly related languages spoken in the region of the Guam River in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Languages

The Tamolan languages are:

Tamolan
- Inapang (dialect continuum)
  - Midsivindi
  - Itutang (Isarikan)
  - Yigavesakama
- Chini–Iski
  - Akrukay (Chini)
  - Iski (dialect continuum)
    - Romkun
    - Breri

Kominimung and Igana are said to also be Tamolan languages, but no data has been collected to establish that.

Tamolan is classified among the Ramu languages of northern Papua New Guinea.

Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows:^[1]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		*m	*n		*ŋ
Plosive	plain	*p	*t		*k
Plosive	prenasalized	*ᵐb	*ⁿd		*ᵑg
Affricate			*ⁿdz
Fricative			*s
Liquid		*w	*ɾ	*j	*ɣ

Vowels are *i *ʉ *u *a.

Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as:^[1]

Plus 1sg object *na.

Proto-Tamolan–Ataitan (Proto-Guam–Moam) is very similar, and nearly identical to Proto-Moam.