that the proposed cognates of the East Papuan languages, and even of proposed families within the East Papuan languages, are as likely to be due to chance... 21 KB (1,062 words) - 03:05, 26 February 2024 |
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia... 60 KB (3,794 words) - 18:31, 7 May 2024 |
The West Papuan languages are a proposed language family of about two dozen non-Austronesian languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai... 26 KB (1,617 words) - 22:34, 7 April 2024 |
The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages. All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and... 5 KB (327 words) - 05:44, 10 March 2023 |
Plain languages. (See Iau language#Tone.) Unlike most Papuan languages to the east, words in Lakes Plain languages do not have gender. Bauzi, an East Geelvink... 23 KB (1,634 words) - 16:00, 8 January 2024 |
Indigenous people of New Guinea (redirect from Papuan peoples) Austronesian languages along parts of the coast, and recently developed creoles such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Unserdeutsch, and Papuan Malay. The term "Papuan" is... 27 KB (2,191 words) - 18:06, 19 April 2024 |
East Bougainville languages are a small language family spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan... 8 KB (343 words) - 19:21, 18 October 2023 |
The East Pauwasi languages are a family of Papuan languages spoken in north-central New Guinea, on both sides of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border... 5 KB (276 words) - 12:45, 23 December 2022 |
Papuan Gulf languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages spoken inland from the large gulf that defines the shape of southern Papua New... 9 KB (168 words) - 20:47, 5 January 2024 |
Peninsula of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable. The only comparative... 4 KB (307 words) - 09:04, 7 January 2021 |
The Northwest Papuan languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages. Many of the constituent branches of Northwest Papuan were first proposed... 19 KB (340 words) - 11:35, 10 February 2024 |
The Yawa languages, also known as Yapen languages, are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often... 8 KB (505 words) - 02:23, 9 March 2024 |
be a language isolate, though it may be distantly related to the poorly attested Sulka language or form part of the proposed East Papuan languages. Phonology... 5 KB (233 words) - 19:22, 15 April 2023 |
classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea... 7 KB (558 words) - 03:39, 8 January 2024 |
Papua. Of the neighboring languages, it is most closely related to the Awyu languages to the east. Sawi is an inflecting language and uses both inflections... 1 KB (90 words) - 15:04, 28 November 2021 |
Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area:... 69 KB (4,407 words) - 14:49, 25 April 2024 |
Unlike the neighboring Sepik languages and many other Papuan language families of northern New Guinea, Border languages do not have grammatical gender... 11 KB (709 words) - 15:59, 31 January 2024 |
The Pauwasi languages are a likely family of Papuan languages, mostly in Indonesia. The subfamilies are at best only distantly related. The best described... 9 KB (916 words) - 11:13, 5 March 2024 |
a Papuan language of the Indonesian province of Papua, on the eastern shore of Cenderawasih Bay in Sawai District, Mamberamo Raya Regency. Language use... 1 KB (74 words) - 04:37, 21 May 2022 |
dubiously Yélî Dnye (Yele) of Rossel Island. These were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this does not now seem tenable. While Anêm... 3 KB (212 words) - 23:59, 19 September 2023 |
the four Papuan non-Austronesian languages spoken in the Solomon Islands. "Bilua is sometimes grouped with the other Central Solomons languages and beyond... 9 KB (487 words) - 03:21, 3 April 2023 |
Kofei is a Papuan language of the Indonesian province of Papua, on the eastern shore of Cenderawasih Bay. Kofei is lexically similar to the East Geelvink... 1 KB (56 words) - 15:04, 19 December 2022 |