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| Kalam | |
|---|---|
| Kaironk River | |
| Geographic distribution | Papua New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Northeast New Guinea?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | kala1404 |
TheKalam languages are a smallfamily of languages in theMadang subgroup ofPapua New Guinea.[1] The languages that make up the family areKalam,Tai, andKobon.
They are famous for having perhaps the smallest numbers oflexical verbs of any languages in the world, with somewhere in the range of 100 to 120 verbs in the case of Kobon.
It is as yet unclear whether theGants language is most closely related to the Kalam languages or is one of theSogeram languages.