Malcolm Ross posited a "linkage" connecting the Northern Adelbert languages with the Mabuso languages, and named this group Croisilles /krɔɪˈsɪlz/,[1] as the two families bracket Cape Croisilles (Northern Adelbert to the north, Mabuso to the south).
However, Ross never claimed Croisilles was an actual language family, and other researchers have rejected the connection.
[4] Croisilles was first posited by Malcolm Ross (1995), not as an actual language family, but as a linkage.
[1] Pick could not establish regular sound correspondences with Kobol–Pal (Omosan) or Amaimon (Mabulap), and thus leaves them out of the family.
The Proto-Northern Adelbert pronouns are:[2]: 471 Selected lexical reconstructions from Pick (2020) are listed below.