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    The ChimbuWahgi languages are a language family sometimes included in the Trans–New Guinea proposal. There is little doubt that the ChimbuWahgi family...
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  • Wahgi is a Trans–New Guinea language of the ChimbuWahgi branch spoken by approximately 100,000 people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Like other...
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  • monolinguals. Ethnologue also reported 70,000 second language speakers in 2021. Like other Chimbu languages, Kuman has rather unusual lateral consonants. Besides...
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    different branches of what became TNG for the first time, linking Engan, ChimbuWahgi, Goroka, and Kainantu. (Duna and Kalam were added in 1971.) Then in 1970...
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  • several ChimbuWahgi language varieties of Tabare Rural LLG (also called Sinasina), Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea. The term 'Sinasina' as a language name...
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  • Nii is a Trans–New Guinea language of the ChimbuWahgi branch spoken in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Nii has an unusual number of lateral consonants:...
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    Voiceless velar lateral fricative (category Articles containing Archi-language text)
    fricatives or affricates. In New Guinea, some of the ChimbuWahgi languages such as Melpa, Middle Wahgi, and Nii, have a voiceless velar lateral fricative...
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    The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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    al. (2018): Trans-New Guinea Madang Finisterre-Huon Kainantu-Goroka Chimbu-Wahgi Enga-Kewa-Huli Bosavi East Strickland Kutubu Duna-Bogaya Wiru Ok-Oksapmin...
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  • Waghi (redirect from Wahgi)
    Wahgi) may refer to: North Waghi Rural LLG South Waghi Rural LLG North Waghi District Anglimp-South Waghi District Waghi River Wahgi language Chimbu–Wahgi...
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  • Mareng or Yoadabe-Watoare, is a Trans–New Guinea language of the ChimbuWahgi branch. Speakers of the language can be found in the Bismarck range of the Madang...
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  • Kainantu–Goroka languages#Evolution Engan languages#Evolution ChimbuWahgi languages#Evolution Wahgi language#Evolution East Strickland languages#Evolution...
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  • is a Trans–New Guinea language of the Eastern Group of the Chimbu family, spoken in the Gumine and Sinasina Districts of Chimbu Province and in some other...
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  • Narak is a Trans–New Guinea language of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Narak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Cook...
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  • Imperial German coastal defence ship Hagen, a subdivision of the ChimbuWahgi languages of Papua New Guinea Hagen Site, Montana, United States, an archaeological...
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  • Nomane is a Trans–New Guinea language of Nomane Rural LLG, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. Nomane at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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  • Central (ChimbuWahgi) family Chimbu branch: Chuave, Dom, Golin, Kuman, Nomane, Salt-Yui, Sinasina Hagen branch Melpa (Medlpa) language Kaugel languages: Imbongu...
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  • Salt, or Yui, is a Trans–New Guinea language of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. Salt at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
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    The Mombum languages, also known as the Komolom or Muli Strait languages, are a pair of Trans–New Guinea languages, Mombum (Komolom) and Koneraw, spoken...
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  • Kandawo, also known as Narake (but see related Narak) is a Trans–New Guinea language of Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. A dialect survey of Kandawo...
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  • Melpa (also written Medlpa) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands...
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  • The Manubaran languages are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around Mount Brown in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New...
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  • Entry". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International. Retrieved 24 January 2012. "The Bible in Imbongu language". worldbibles.org...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker (category Linguists of ChimbuWahgi languages)
    Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network) from 2014 to 2016 and in 2017 was the senior co-chair of the Committee on Endangered Languages and Their...
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    numerous language is Ngalum, with some 20,000 speakers; the best known is probably Telefol. The Ok languages have dyadic kinship terms. The Ok languages are...
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  • one of the languages spoken in the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. Geographically the people are Kaugel, but their language appears to...
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  • A. (2018). "The morphosyntactic typology of Papuan languages". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive...
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  • Chuave is a Trans–New Guinea language of Chimbu Province and Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Chuave is spoken in Elimbari Rural LLG, Chuave...
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    The Kolopom languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005). Along with the...
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