• The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal...
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  • Keuw language (currently classified as a language isolate) may also possibly share a deep relationship with the Lakes Plain languages. Like the Lakes Plain...
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  • Abawiri (redirect from Doa language)
    reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of Irian Jaya". Papers in Papuan Linguistics. 2: 133–236. Voorhoeve, Clemens L. (1975). Languages of Irian Jaya:...
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    languages, including the vernaculars of the Asmat and Dani people. Mairasi languages (4) East Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) languages (10) Lakes Plain languages...
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  • outside world in 1982. The Tause language has been widely reported to be related to the neighboring Lakes Plain languages; however, this conclusion is based...
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    is less complex than that of Tor-Kwerba languages, but is more complex than that of the Lakes Plain languages. The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–East...
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  • is not clear. Iau is the most tonally complex Lakes Plain language. Unlike other Lakes Plain languages which can be disyllabic or trisyllabic, Iau word...
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  • Donohue (2017), with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages. In an earlier paper co-authored by Donohue, the approximants /j...
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  • villages. Fayu has a relatively minimal phonological index, typical of Lakes Plain languages. It has an extensive system of allomorphy. Fayu at Ethnologue (18th...
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  • world, equal to the Pirahã and Rotokas languages. The small consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages. Obokuitai does have some more sounds...
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  • highly differs from Lakes Plain. For instance, unlike the nearby Lakes Plain languages, Abinomn is a non-tonal language.: 513  Languages adjacent to Abinomn...
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  • Eritai (Eri), or Baburiwa, is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is named after Erai village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo...
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  • consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages. The complete lack of nasals is also a feature of these languages. There are however several notable...
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  • Kaiy (Kai, Taori-Kei) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in Kaiy and Kokou villages in Rafaer District, Mamberamo Raya Regency...
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  • Duvle (Sikwari) is a Lakes Plain language of the Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in Dagai village in Dagai District, Puncak Jaya Regency. Variant spellings...
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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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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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    The Mamberamo Lakes Plains (Dutch Meervlakte, Malay dataran danau-danau) are a large, flat low-lying area of the Mamberamo River basin in the Indonesian...
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  • surrounded by the Kwerba languages to the north, the Lakes Plain languages to the south, and the East Cenderawasih Bay languages to the west. Burmeso forms...
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  • Awera is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken on the east side of Geelvink Bay, in the single village of Awera in Wapoga District,...
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  • to be Orya. Stephen Wurm (1975) linked Orya and the Tor languages with the Lakes Plain languages, forming a branch of his Trans–New Guinea phylum. Clouse...
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  • Tariku (category Amharic-language names)
    River, a river in the Papua province of Indonesia Tariku language, one of the Lakes Plain languages Tarikuiyeh, village in Kerman Province, Iran, also known...
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    include the Sko, Lepki, Kaure, Kembra, Lakes Plain, and Keuw languages. New Guinea portal Trans–New Guinea languages Proto-Trans–New Guinea "Papuan". www...
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  • possibly share a deep relationship with the Lakes Plain languages. Palmer (2018) treats Keuw as a language isolate. Phonology of Keuw from Kamholz (2012)...
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    consonants are:: 456  The Kaure vowels are:: 456  Like the Lakes Plain languages, Kaure is a tonal language. There are two tones, namely high and low.: 456  Monosyllabic...
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  • The Pirahã language is one of the phonologically simplest languages known, comparable to Rotokas (New Guinea) and the Lakes Plain languages such as Obokuitai...
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  • languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05. Clouse, Duane A. (1997). "Towards a reconstruction and reclassification of the Lakes Plain languages of...
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  • Kirikiri may refer to: Kirikiri language, a Lakes Plain language Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, a Nigerian maximum security prison Kirikiri Station...
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  • Doutai (Taori, Tolitai) is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is spoken in Toli-Dou village, located southwest of Taiyeve town. Doutai...
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  • Waropen Regency, where the Lakes Plain language Saponi was also spoken. Woria is lexically similar to the East Geelvink Bay languages and presumably belongs...
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