Numugen languages

Numugen
Numagen River
Geographic
distribution
Numagen River, New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea?
Language codes
Glottolognumu1240

The Numugen (Numagen) languages are a small family of closely related languages in the Madang branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) phylum of New Guinea, spoken in the region of the Numagen River.

The languages are:[1]

Usan (Wanuma), Karian (Bilakura), Yaben, Yarawata, Parawen, Ukuriguma
  1. ^ Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.