title: Southern Adelbert languages
text: # 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.
  
  ## Languages
  
  The languages are as follows.
  
  * 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".
  
  