Brahman languages

The Brahman languages, Biyom and Tauya, form a subbranch of the Rai Coast branch of the Madang languages of Papua New Guinea. The family is named after the cattle station and town of Brahman, which lies between the territories of the two languages.

Brahman
(Biyom–Tauya)
Geographic
distribution
Brahman, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationMadang
GlottologNone

Genetic relations

John Z'graggen (1971, 1975) classified four languages as Brahman, Biyom, Faita, Isabi, Tauya.[1]

Ross (2005) broke up Brahman, placing Faita among the Sogeram languages (another sub-branch of Madang) and Isabi among the unrelated Goroka languages – a position followed by Usher (2018).

References

  1. Brahman Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, in the 15th edition of Ethnologue


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