• Stephen Adolphe Wurm AM FASSA FAHA (Hungarian: Wurm István Adolf, pronounced [ˈvurm ˈiʃtvaːn ˈɒdolf]; 19 August 1922 – 24 October 2001) was a Hungarian-born...
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    attempts at large-scale genealogical classification, by Joseph Greenberg, Stephen Wurm, and Malcolm Ross. The largest family posited for the Papuan region is...
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    enough to come under the authority of UNESCO. At the instigation of Stephen Wurm the committee resolved to create a research center, the International...
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    1919, again by Ray. The precursor of the Trans–New Guinea family was Stephen Wurm's 1960 proposal of an East New Guinea Highlands family. Although broken...
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  • Danish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Modern Greek, and some Turkish. Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born Australian linguist. "He was a genuine rapid...
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    in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue...
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  • Guinea. The first of these, his Ph.D. research under the supervision of Stephen Wurm, was published as The Ndu languages (1965), and established the existence...
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    form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm and Malcolm Ross, and were established as part of the Anim branch of...
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    are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005). Along with the Mombum languages, they...
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  • Since 2012, Pacific Linguistics has been published by Walter de Gruyter. Stephen Wurm was the founding editor. Tom Dutton was the managing editor of Pacific...
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    in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this no longer seems tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009)...
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  • East New Guinea Highlands is a 1960 proposal by Stephen Wurm for a family of Papuan languages spoken in Papua New Guinea that formed part of his 1975 expansion...
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    Teberan languages are a well established family of Papuan languages that Stephen Wurm (1975) grouped with the Pawaia language as a branch of the Trans–New...
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  • of Rossel Island. These were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable. While Anêm and Ata do appear to...
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    Indo-Pacific, but this is not generally accepted by other linguists. Stephen Wurm states that the lexical similarities between Great Andamanese and the...
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  • org/stable/44938790. Accessed 29 October 2024. Lee-Smith, Mei; Wurm, Stephen (1996). "The Wutun Language". In Stephen Wurm; Peter Mühlhäusler; Darrell T. Tyron (eds.)....
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  • work, the languages of New Guinea have been intensively studied by Stephen Wurm. Wurm's Trans–New Guinea languages family includes about 70 percent of the...
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  • Lincoln argued that the Reefs – Santa Cruz languages were Oceanic, while Stephen Wurm argued that they were Papuan languages. These languages were only definitively...
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    Papers in Linguistics. 8 (2): 215–247. Retrieved 12 February 2021. Marlett, Stephen. "La situación sociolingüística de la lengua seri en 2006" (PDF). Lenguas...
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    comparative method but considered spurious by historical linguists. Stephen Wurm suggests similarities with Trans-New Guinea languages and others are...
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    further west. The family was posited by Stephen Wurm as a branch of his 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal. Wurm thought it likely that many of these languages...
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    languages were attributed to borrowing in the classifications of both Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), where Oksapmin was placed as an independent...
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  • composer Mathilde Wurm (1874–1935), German politician Ole Wurm (or Worm) (1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquary Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born...
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  • hypothetical language family proposed by Arthur Capell in 1962 and adopted by Stephen Wurm as part of his Trans–New Guinea (TNG) phylum. Malcolm Ross reassigned...
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  • province, Indonesia. It is a local trade language, and use is vigorous. Stephen Wurm (1975) linked it to the Kwerba languages within the Trans–New Guinea...
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    Indo-Pacific, but this is not generally accepted by other linguists. Stephen Wurm states that the lexical similarities between Great Andamanese and the...
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    Cowan linked them to the non-Austronesian languages of Timor as well. Stephen Wurm believed that although traces of West Papuan languages were to be found...
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    They were classified as a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages by Stephen Wurm (1975), but only tentatively retained there in the classification of...
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    classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005). Mek, then called Goliath, was identified by M. Bromley in 1967. It was placed in TNG by Wurm (1975)...
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    would later be incorporated in the Trans–New Guinea classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005). ? Kaki Ae (Tate) Eleman family West:...
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