Abaga language
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Abaga is a nearly extinct Kalam language
of Papua New Guinea
. It had once been classified as Finisterre
.
Kalam languages
The Kalam languages are a small family of languages in the Madang branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages phylum of New Guinea.The languages are:They are famous for having perhaps the smallest numbers of lexical verbs of any languages in the world, with somewhere in the range of 100 to 120 verbs...
of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. It had once been classified as Finisterre
Finisterre languages
The Finisterre languages are a family within the original Trans–New Guinea proposal, and William Foley considers their TNG identity to be established...
.