Eastern Trans-Fly (or Oriomo Plateau) languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages spoken in the Oriomo Plateau to the west of the Fly River...
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The Trans-Fly languages are a small family of Papuan languages proposed by Timothy Usher, that are spoken in the region of the Fly River. Trans-Fly Eastern...
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Trans-Fly may refer to: Trans-Fly languages Eastern Trans-Fly languages Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands Fly River Western...
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The Trans-Fly–Bulaka River aka South-Central Papuan languages form a hypothetical family of Papuan languages. They include many of the languages west of...
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and Eastern Trans-Fly families (22 and 4 languages). Andrew Pawley and Harald Hammarström (2018) accept 35 subgroups as members of Trans-New Guinea. Groups...
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Pama–Nyungan languages of the Australian mainland. The other indigenous language spoken mainly in the eastern islands is Meriam Mir: a member of the Trans-Fly languages...
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Fly River, just west of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages. Idzuwe is no longer spoken. Ross (2005) tentatively includes them in the proposed Trans-Fly –...
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Trans-Fly family of the Trans–New Guinea Phylum by Stephen Wurm, who however felt that these have retained remnants of pre-Trans–New Guinea languages;...
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Jibu or Oriomo, is a Papuan language of New Guinea. It is a member of the Eastern Trans-Fly family, the other languages of this family being Gizrra,...
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other languages. Evans (2018) classifies it as a language isolate. Usher (2020) includes it in the Trans-Fly family. Part of the uncertainty is because many...
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Gizrra, or Toga, is a Papuan language of New Guinea. Its two varieties are Western Gizrra and Waidoro. Gizrra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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Papuan, Eastern Trans-Fly languages, in particular Meriam Mir of the Torres Strait Islands, as well as the Papuan Tip Austronesian languages. Most Australian...
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Hiwi (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
language, the Cuahiban language spoken by them Waia language, a Trans-Fly language of Papua New Guinea Waboda language, a Trans–New-Guinea language spoken...
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branches of his Trans–New Guinea phylum have no vocabulary in common with other Trans–New Guinea languages, and were classified as Trans–New Guinea because...
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Sogal and Täti. Speakers refer to the language as either bine mene (Bine language) or kewe mene (village language). Bine is usually divided into two standard...
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Ergative–absolutive alignment (redirect from Ergative-absolutive languages)
such languages are called tripartite languages or ergative–accusative languages. Eastern Trans-Fly languages various Trans–New Guinea languages Basque...
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Torres Strait Islanders (section Languages)
Pama-Nyungan family of languages of Australia. Meriam Mir is spoken on the eastern islands. It is one of the four Eastern Trans-Fly languages, the other three...
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languages, also known as the Morehead River languages, are a family of Papuan languages. They include many of the languages south and west of the Fly...
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Mer Island, Queensland (section Language)
Creole and Meriam, a member of the Eastern Trans-Fly languages of Trans–New Guinea; its sister languages being Bini, Wipi and Gizrra. Though it is unrelated...
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Proto-Trans–New Guinea is the reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the Trans–New Guinea languages. Reconstructions have been proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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The Tirio languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The Tirio languages have about 40% of their lexicon...
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The Anim or Fly River languages are a language family in south-central New Guinea established by Usher & Suter (2015). The names of the family derive from...
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Ume (disambiguation) (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
writing Ume, a dialect of the Isoko language of Nigeria Ume, a dialect of the Wipi language, an Eastern Trans-Fly language of Papua New Guinea Ume, Ōita, a...
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Eastern Trans-Fly languages (also known as Oriomo Plateau languages) are spoken in the LLG. 01. Dorogori 02. Wuroi 03. Wonie (Wipi language speakers)...
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following languages: Guahibo language, a Guahiban language of Colombia and Venezuela Waia language, a Trans-Fly language of Papua New Guinea Waboda language, a...
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(Marind–Yakhai) languages are a well established language family of Papuan languages, spoken by the Marind-anim. They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in...
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Kalaw Lagaw Ya (redirect from West Torres language)
categories also exist in the Trans-Fly languages; the forms in Kalaw Lagaw Ya are clearly Australian. Papuan (Trans-Fly) Some basic and abstract vocabulary...
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grammatically divergent from the Trans–New Guinea languages, and typically have singular, dual, trial, and plural pronouns. The Trans–New Guinea identity of Kiwaiian...
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these two Gur languages of Burkina Faso: Samwe language Paleni language Wára may refer to: Upper Morehead language, a Trans-Fly language of Papua New-Guinea...
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Guinea World, Fly River Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics...
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