Amele language

Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.

Amele
Sona
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
(5,300 cited 1987)
Trans–New Guinea
  • Madang
    • Croisilles linkage
      • Mabuso?
Language codes
ISO 639-3aey
Glottologamel1241

Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes, over 69,000 finite forms and 860 infinitive forms of the verb.

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