Amto-Musan languages

Amto-Musan languages

Infobox Language family
name=Amto-Musan
region=Papua New Guinea
familycolor=Papuan
fam1=no proven relationships
child1=Amto
child2=Siawi

Amto-Musan is a language family of two closely related but not mutually intelligible Papuan languages, Amto and Siawi, of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Amto-Musan was unclassified by Ross due to lack of data. The family has typological similarities with the Busa language isolate, but these do not appear to demonstrate a genetic relationship.

ee also

*Papuan languages
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91788 Ethnologue entry for Amto-Musan]


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