The Demta–Sentani languages form a language family of coastal Indonesian Papua near the Papua New Guinea border. Demta–Sentani Demta Sentani proper Sentani...
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Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central...
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Senagi, as an independent Senagi family (2) Sentani (4 languages), within an East Bird's Head – Sentani family Tor and Kwerba, joined as a Tor–Kwerba...
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Demta, also known as Sowari and Muris, is a Papuan language on the north coast of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in Ambora, Muris Besar, Muris Kecil,...
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various other Malayic languages. According to Ethnologue 16, several of the Malayic varieties they currently list as separate languages, including the Orang...
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Papua (province) (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
especially among the Sentani people, where the dance is performed from one village to another. According to the Sentani language, Isosolo or Isolo dance...
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Bird's Head–Sentani languages form a family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross which combines the East Bird's Head and Sentani families along...
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the main language families of the world The language families of Africa Map of the Austronesian languages Map of major Dravidian languages Distribution...
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Indonesian Papuans (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
palaeocontinent). They natively speak numerous languages belonging to Austronesian languages or Papuan languages, each with its distinctive and unique linguistic...
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Indigenous people of New Guinea (redirect from Indigenous languages of New Guinea)
Papuan peoples. Linguistically, Papuans speak languages from the many families of non-Austronesian languages that are found only on New Guinea and neighboring...
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Sause is a Papuan language spoken in Indonesia, to the southwest of Sentani. Its classification is uncertain, but it appears to be related to Kapauri...
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native regional languages such as Javanese, Sundanese, Minangkabau, Balinese, Banjarese, and Buginese, as well as by foreign languages such as Arabic,...
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possibility that Greater North Borneo languages are closely related to many other western Indonesian languages, including Javanese. Blust's suggestion...
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[= non-TNG Sepik family] Sentani: Sentani, Nafri, Tanahmerah, Nimboran, Gresik, Kemtuk, Kuangsu, Waibron Bano-Demenggong, Demta, Mekei, Boven Tor, Kwesten...
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Gorontalo–Mongondow languages Sangiric languages Minahasan languages Celebic languages South Sulawesi languages The remaining three languages are affiliated...
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the west of Lake Sentani. Nimboran at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea"...
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Borneo languages Central Sarawak languages Kayan–Murik languages Land Dayak languages Malayo–Chamic Chamic languages Malayic languages Rejang language Sundanese...
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The Musi languages consists of a collection of closely related Malayic varieties spoken in the eastern and northern regions of South Sumatra, as well...
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a collection of Malayic languages primarily spoken by the Riau Malays in Riau and the Riau Islands in Indonesia. The language is not a single entity but...
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The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well-established group of languages spoken by the Sama-Bajau peoples (A'a sama) of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia...
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to the Malayic languages, as well as to language groups spoken in Borneo such as the Land Dayak languages or the Kayan–Murik languages, based on high...
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other Chamic languages, which are principally spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia. The distant relative of the Chamic family is the Malayic language family, which...
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is part of the local Bornean Malayic languages and is closely related to but distinct from the Banjar language in South Kalimantan, Berau, also spoken...
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Mlap, or Kwansu (obsolete), is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is spoken just to the west of Lake Sentani. Mlap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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Papuan languages and some of languages spoken in Sulawesi, such as Buginese and Cia-Cia. Roughly around 60 out of 200 attested words in this language were...
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The Cenderawasih languages, also known as Nuclear Cenderawasih Bay languages and approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of...
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The Batak languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken by the Batak people in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra and surrounding...
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additional languages, heritage languages, languages in the religious domain, English as a lingua franca, and sign languages. The official language of Indonesia...
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Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the...
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Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: a historical perspective". In Adelaar, K. Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus (eds.). The Austronesian languages of Asia...
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