• The Kwomtari–Fas languages, often referred to ambiguously as Kwomtari, are an apparently spurious language family proposal of six languages spoken by...
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    River languages are a small language family spoken in the Senu River watershed of Papua New Guinea. They consist at least of the Kwomtari languages, Kwomtari...
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  • The Left May–Kwomtari or Arai–Kwomtari languages are a possible small family of Papuan languages proposed by Malcolm Ross, which links the Left May (Arai)...
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  • Kwomtari is the eponymous language of the Kwomtari family of Papua New Guinea. Spencer (2008) is a short grammar of Kwomtari. The language has an SOV[clarification...
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    "Sko, Kwomtari, and Left May (Arai) phyla". In Stephen A. Wurm (ed.). Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene: New Guinea area languages and...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Yalë language, also known as Yadë, Nagatman, or Nagatiman, is spoken in northwestern Papua New Guinea. It may be related to the Kwomtari languages, but...
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  • Indonesia. Kwomtari languages and Senagi languages are spoken in Amanab Rural LLG. 01. Bibriari (Angor language speakers) 02. Porumun (Angor language speakers)...
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  • when the Fas language was mistakenly swapped for the Kwomtari language Biaka in published data. It actually has little in common with Kwomtari, but is 40%...
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  • language spoken in six villages to the north of the Busa area. Busa may be one of the Kwomtari languages. Foley (2018) classifies Busa as a language isolate...
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  • with the Kwomtari or Fas languages. Timothy Usher links the Left May languages to their neighbors, the Amto–Musan languages and the Pyu language in as Arai–Samaia...
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  • (secondary coordinates) Nai or Biaka is a language of Papua New Guinea. Nai is one of the Kwomtari languages. However, due to an alignment error in the...
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  • The Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal. Unlike the...
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  • linked to the putative Kwomtari–Fas family, but that family is apparently spurious and Foley (2018) notes that Pyu and Kwomtari are highly divergent from...
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  • "Sko, Kwomtari, and Left May (Arai) phyla". In Stephen A. Wurm (ed.). Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene: New Guinea area languages and...
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  • eponymous language of the small Fas language family of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. Fas was once mistakenly placed in the Kwomtari family, confusing...
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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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    Star Mountains (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea...
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  • Amto-Musan, Busa, Yalë, Kwomtari, Pauwasi, and other languages unrelated to each other are spoken in this LLG. 01. Abaru (Karkar language speakers) 02. Dieru...
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  • village) The Piore River languages have influenced various other languages (other Skou, Kwomtari, Torricelli, and Oceanic languages) that have arrived relatively...
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  • language of Papua New Guinea. Only described in 1983, it appears to be distantly related to the Kwomtari and Nai languages. (See Senu River languages...
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  • Donald Laycock (category Linguists of Papuan languages)
    short illness, in Canberra, on 27 December 1988. Kwomtari–Baibai languages Papuan languages The Ndu language family (Sepik District, New Guinea). Pacific...
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  • bilabial trill /ʙ/ is found in the areal-related Kwomtari and Sko languages, but not in other Border languages. It likely developed from a prenasalized bilabial...
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    Lower Sepik-Ramu, Kwomtari, Leonhard Schultze, Upper Yuat, Yuat, Left May, and Amto-Musan language families, while local language isolates are Busa,...
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  • Glottolog (category Language families)
    of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database...
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    Voiced bilabial trill (category Articles containing Pirahã-language text)
    Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea...
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  • "Ethnologue: Languages of the World" (19th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. "Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages (ISO 639-1 and...
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