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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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  • Kuman (also Chimbu or Simbu) is a language of Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea. In 1994, it was estimated that 80,000 people spoke Kuman, 10,000 of them...
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  • Ma (Ma Wam), or Mebu, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Mibu (5°48′05″S 146°22′49″E / 5.801486°S 146.380221°E...
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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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    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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  • Sino-Japanese character Ma language, a language spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo Ma language (Papuan), a language of Papua New Guinea Ma (Sumerian mythology)...
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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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    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...
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  • 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 neighboring...
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  • Sauk, or Ma Manda, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. Many works on this language have conducted by Ryan Pennigton, include a detailed...
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  • Kambot a.k.a. Ap Ma (Ap Ma Botin, Botin, also Karaube), is a Keram language of Papua New Guinea. Compared to its nearest relative, Ambakich, Kambot drops...
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  • Papuan languages is a defunct proposal for a family of Papuan languages spoken on the islands to the east of New Guinea, including New Britain, New Ireland...
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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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  • 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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  • Sulka is a language isolate of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In 1991, there were 2,500 speakers in eastern Pomio District, East New Britain Province...
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    Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen Wurm, followed...
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  • known as Kuni after one of its dialects, is a Papuan language spoken in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea by the Bwadji people in the vicinity of Lake...
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  • the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. There were some 4,000 speakers in 1998, comprising the entire ethnic population. The language remains unclassified...
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  • (secondary coordinates) The Busa language, also known as Odiai (Uriai), is spoken in three hamlets of northwestern Papua New Guinea. There were 244 speakers at...
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    mountainous former part of the province of Papua, it is located on the central highlands of Western New Guinea, where it is the first and only landlocked...
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  • Finisterre languages are a language family, spoken in the Finisterre Range of Papua New Guinea, classified within the original Trans–New Guinea (TNG) proposal...
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  • belonging to the Trans–New Guinea family: Wilbrink, Ans (2004). The Kopkaka of Papua: Provisional notes on their language, its language affiliation and on...
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    precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches of the family...
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    languages are a small independent family of Papuan languages spoken in the Oriomo Plateau to the west of the Fly River in New Guinea. The languages constituted...
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  • (secondary coordinates) The Karkar language, also known as Yuri, is the sole Eastern Pauwasi language of Papua New Guinea. There are about a thousand speakers...
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    Trans-New Guinea database and Usher (2020). New Guinea World, Papuan Peninsula New Guinea World, Owen Stanley Range Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea...
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  • Mailu, or Magi (Magɨ), is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Magi is a non-Austronesian language spoken by upwards of 6000 people living on the islands...
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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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  • Pyu is a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea. As of 2000, the language had about 100 speakers. It is spoken in Biake No. 2 village (4°01′09″S...
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  • Murik a.k.a. Nor is a Lower Sepik language spoken in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Murik ward (3°47′42″S 143°59′55″E / 3.794976°S 143.998682°E...
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