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    The Kiwaian languages form a language family of New Guinea. They are a dialect cluster of half a dozen closely related languages. They are grammatically...
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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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    languages spoken in the country. In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages...
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    (tentatively) in TNG (Kiwaian, Moraori, Tirio), plus the independent South-Central Papuan and Eastern Trans-Fly families (22 and 4 languages). Andrew Pawley...
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    the Kiwaian languages, but it is now recognized that many actually have a paucal instead. Linguist Michael Cysouw has suggested that most languages reported...
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  • analysis. University of North Dakota. Wurm, Stephen A. (1973). The Kiwaian Language Family. In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), The Linguistic Situation in the...
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    Below are some turtle names, with additional names in Porome, Kiwaian, and Kutubuan languages also provided for comparison: Names for Emydura subglobosa...
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    local-level government (LLG) of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Kiwaian languages are spoken in the LLG. 01. Sigabaduru 02. Mabudawan 03. Tureture 04...
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    Kiwaian, on the banks and east of the Fly River Waia, north of the Fly delta Tirio, on the western bank of the Fly River Eastern Trans-Fly languages,...
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  • Morigi is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. Morigi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e v t e...
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    Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages...
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  • Kerewo is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. Some portions of the Bible were translated into Kerewo. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and...
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  • Bamu, or Bamu Kiwai, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. A thousand speakers of Gama are included in the ISO code for Bamu. However, Ethnologue...
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    Several of the Chimbu–Wahgi languages have uncommon lateral consonants: see Nii, Wahgi, and Kuman for examples. Chimbu–Wahgi languages have contrastive tone...
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  • Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Kiwaian languages are spoken in the LLG. 01. Haivaro 02. Moka (Minanibai language speakers) 03. Komaio 04. Masusu 05...
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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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  • languages#Evolution Kutubuan languages#Evolution Kiwaian languages#Evolution Kiwai language#Evolution Tirio languages#Evolution Awin–Pa–Kamula languages#Evolution Kolopom...
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    The Alor–Pantar languages are a family of clearly related Papuan languages spoken on islands of the Alor archipelago near Timor in southern Indonesia....
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  • Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International. United...
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    the exchange of stone axes for large seafaring canoes. Kiwai language Kiwaian languages Kiwai Rural LLG  New Guinea portal http://islands.unep.ch/IHD...
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  • The Oirata–Makasae, or Eastern Timor, languages are a small family of Papuan languages spoken in eastern Timor and the neighboring island of Kisar. Mandala...
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    The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around the Cook River in Province of South Papua, Indonesia:...
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    the Trans–New Guinea languages by Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), but removed (along with the related Goilalan languages) by Timothy Usher (2020)...
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  • Thumbnail for Engan languages
    Engan, or more precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches...
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  • Guinea and Melanesia with the languages of the Andaman Islands (or at least Great Andamanese) and, tentatively, the languages of Tasmania, both of which...
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    River languages are a family of Papuan languages. The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum. Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which...
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    Papuan or Papuan Peninsula ("Bird's Tail") languages are a group of half a dozen small families of Papuan languages in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula)...
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  • The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley...
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    The 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...
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  • (TAP) languages are a family of languages spoken in Timor, Kisar, and the Alor archipelago in Southern Indonesia. It is the westernmost Papuan language family...
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