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Engan languages

Engan
Geographic
distribution		 New Guinea
Linguistic classification Trans–New Guinea
  • Engan
Subdivisions
  • North (Engan)
  • South (Kewa–Huli)
  • Wiru?
Glottolog enga1254
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Map: The Engan languages of New Guinea
  The Engan languages
  Other Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited

The Engan languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The nine languages are clearly related.

There are a considerable number of resemblances with Wiru, though borrowing has not been ruled out.

Pronouns are easy to reconstruct for the northern and southern branches, but much more difficult for Engan as a whole. Ross (2005) has the following for the singular:



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