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Amal is a language spoken along the border of Sandaun Province and East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, along the Wagana River near the confluence with Wanibe Creek. Foley (2018) classifies Amal as a primary branch of the Sepik languages, though it is quite close to Kalou.

Pronouns

Pronouns are:

Amal pronouns

	sg	pl
1	ŋan	nut
2	in	kun
3	may	ilum

Cognates

Amal cognates with Sepik languages are:

• tal ‘woman’
• yan ‘child’
• lal ‘tongue’ < proto-Sepik *ta(w)r
• mi ‘breast’ < proto-Sepik *muk
• waplo ‘liver’
• nip ‘blood’
• yen ‘egg’
• ak ‘house’

Foley (2018) notes that there appears to be somewhat more lexical similarities between Amal and the Tama languages, but does not consider them to form a group with each other.

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words of Amal are from Laycock (1968), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:

gloss	Amal
head	makələ
ear	marj
eye	nai
nose	yimeʔ
tooth	pu
tongue	lal
leg	lü
louse	ŋin
dog	wun
bird	yok
egg	yen
blood	niːp
bone	nəŋolak
skin	puːk
breast	m
tree	piːt
man	wul
woman	tal
sun	mwak
moon	yimal
water	iːp
fire	waː
stone	tipal
two	kila

References

1. ^ Amal at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. ^ Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
3. Laycock, Donald C. 1968. Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea. Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66.
4. Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.

• Yellow–Wanibe languages
• Languages of Sandaun Province
• Languages of East Sepik Province