Engan languages

The Engan, or more precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches of the family are rather distantly related, but were connected by Franklin and Voorhoeve (1973).

Engan
Enga – Southern Highlands
Geographic
distribution
New Guinea
Linguistic classificationNortheast New Guinea and/or Trans–New Guinea?
  • Engan
Subdivisions
  • North (Engan)
  • South (Kewa–Huli)
Glottologenga1254
Map: The Engan languages of New Guinea
  The Engan languages
  Trans–New Guinea languages
  Other Papuan languages
  Austronesian languages
  Uninhabited
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