Mongol–Langam languages


The Mongol–Langam, Koam, or Ulmapo languages are a language group of Keram Rural LLG, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea belonging to the Ramu language family. Foley includes them within the Grass languages, but they were not included in Foley.
The Koam languages are spoken next to the Yuat languages, but two groups are unrelated.

Names

The name Koam is used by Foley, while the name Ulmapo is used by Barlow and Glottolog 4.0.

Languages

According to Summer Institute of Linguistics data from 2003, the member languages had the following number of speakers:
noted that the Mongol–Langam languages mark nouns for pluralisation, like the Lower Sepik languages and Yuat languages, and also that the lexicon also shows many resemblances to Yuat languages, while pronouns are similar to the Grass languages. Malcolm Ross accepts them as Ramu languages based on their pronouns. With additional data from recent research, Usher confirms their position in the Keram branch of the Ramu family.