| Abelam | |
| Nativename: | Ambelas |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Sepik River basin |
| Ethnicity: | Abelam |
| Speakers: | 33,000 |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Sepik |
| Fam2: | Middle Sepik |
| Fam3: | Ndu |
| Iso3: | abt |
| Glotto: | ambu1247 |
| Glottorefname: | Ambulas |
Abelam (or Ambulas, Abulas) is the third and most prevalent of the Ndu languages of Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea.[1] Dialects are Maprik, Wingei, Wosera-Kamu, Wosera-Mamu.
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Liquid | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||
| pronounced as /link/ | |||
| pronounced as /link/ |
[i, u] may be heard as a realization of the sequences /əj/, /əw/ or resulting in syllabic forms of /j, w/.