Southern Adelbert languages

The South Adelbert or Southern Adelbert Range languages are a family of languages in the Madang stock of New Guinea, spoken along the tributaries of the Ramu River in the watershed of the Adelbert Range.

Southern Adelbert
Sogeram and Tomul Rivers
Geographic distribution	Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Northeast New Guinea? Madang West Madang Southern Adelbert
Subdivisions	Tomul (Josephstaal) Sogeram (Wanang)
Language codes
Glottolog	sout3148

Languages

The languages are as follows.^[1][2]

• Tomul River (~ Josephstaal)
  • Osum (Utarmbung)
  • Wadaginam
  • Pomoikan: Anam (Pondoma), Anamgura (Ikundun) – Moresada
• Sogeram River (~ Wanang) (see)

In earlier classifications, such as that of Wurm, the Tomul River languages plus the Sikan languages were called "Josephstaal", while the rest of the Sogeram family was called "Wanang".