Eleman languages

The Eleman languages are a family spoken around Kerema Bay, Papua New Guinea.

They were identified as a family by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1907, and would later be incorporated in the Trans–New Guinea classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).

Purari was included by Brown (1968), but the only evidence is the 1sg pronoun nai, which might simply be a reflection of TNG *na.

The purported evidence for including Eleman in the Trans–New Guinea family lies in Kaki Ae.

Ross states that the Kaki Ae isolate links Eleman proper within TNG.