Amele language

Amele
Sona
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
(5,300 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3aey
Glottologamel1241

Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.

Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes,[2] over 69,000 finite forms and 860 infinitive forms of the verb.[3]

  1. ^ Amele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "WALS Online - Chapter Possessive Classification".
  3. ^ Anna Siewierska, Jae Jung Song (1998). Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake. Amsterdam: John Benjamin B.V. p. 112. ISBN 90-272-2937-6.