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Hattam also spelled Hatam Atam and also known as Borai or Mansim is a divergent language of New Guinea. It is not closely related to any other language and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages based on similarities in pronouns Ethnologue (2009) removed it as a language isolate.Following Reesink (2002) Glottolog lists Mansim with rumours of 50 speakers as a distinct language.