• District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, is transitional to Nalik. Kara contains fourteen consonants...
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  • Kara language may refer to: Kara language (Korea), a language of the Gaya confederacy in southern Korea Kara language (Papua New Guinea), an Austronesian...
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    Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to...
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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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  • an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing...
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  • Malayo-Polynesian language of the central southern coast of the Papuan Peninsula in Papua New Guinea. Paradisec has multiple collections with Toura language materials...
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    the world after Papua New Guinea. Most languages belong to the Austronesian language family, while there are over 270 Papuan languages spoken in eastern...
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  • Boettger, Juliane (2015). Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (Ph.D. thesis). James Cook University. "Lele". Ethnologue...
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  • Kara, Bougainville, a town on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea Kara, Togo, a city in northern Togo Kara Region Roman Catholic Diocese of Kara,...
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    except Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea), have subject–object–verb (SOV) word...
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  • from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language that is spoken by the Motuans, an indigenous ethnic group of Papua New Guinea. It is commonly used today...
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  • Kele or Gele’ is a language spoken in the easterly section of inland Manus Island, New Guinea. Its name comes from the Kele word for "there". The syllable...
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  • Nalik language is spoken by 5,000 or so people, based in 17 villages in Kavieng District, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language and...
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  • Pokau is an Austronesian language of the central southern coast of the Papuan Peninsula in Papua New Guinea. This language is spoken in the villages...
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  • Manus Island and on Los Negros Island to the east in Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. It has SVO word order. Koro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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    Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea...
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  • Saliba is an Oceanic language spoken on the islets off the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 2,500 speakers of Saliba. Significant...
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  • The Ngero–Vitiaz languages form a linkage of Austronesian languages in northern Papua New Guinea. They are spoken, from west to east, in Madang Province...
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  • Hermit language is an extinct West Manus language formerly spoken on Hermit, Luf and Maron Islands in western Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. It has...
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    Suki – Aramia River languages are a small language family of Papua New Guinea, spoken in the region of the Aramia River. The languages are: Gogodala–Suki...
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  • Southwest Papua, Indonesia: List of ethnic groups of West Papua Indigenous people of New Guinea Ethnic groups in Indonesia Southwest Papua List of districts...
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  • The Northwest Papuan languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages. Many of the constituent branches of Northwest Papuan were first proposed...
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  • Northeast New Guinea Papuan Languages" (PDF). Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. 28. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea; Society...
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  • New Guinea. They are classified within the Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea. The languages are: Koiaric branch (Koiari): Grass Koiari, Mountain...
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    branch of Austronesian languages. Grammatically, they have been strongly influenced by the Papuan languages of northern New Guinea, but they retain a remarkably...
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  • Elu is an Austronesian language spoken on the northern coast of Manus Island, New Guinea. Elu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e...
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    The West Trans–New Guinea languages are a suggested linguistic linkage of Papuan languages, not well established as a group, proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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  • 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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  • Sepa is an Oceanic language of northeast New Guinea. Sepa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
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  • language, or Kuanua, is spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. This language...
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