Melpa (Medlpa, Mbowamb) is a Papuan language spoken by about 130,000 people predominantly in Mount Hagen and the surrounding district of Western Highlands...
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Kalam Kewa Kobon Melpa Mendi Taiap The Kalam pandanus language, called alŋaw mnm (pandanus language) or ask-mosk mnm (avoidance language), is also used...
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used in the writing of the Kutenai language in Canada and some Chimbu–Wahgi languages like the Melpa and Nii languages in Papua New Guinea, composed of...
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including Apache Maven, Apache Ant, and Gradle. Emacs has a Kotlin Mode in its MELPA package repository. JetBrains also provides a plugin for Eclipse. IntelliJ...
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tentative.[citation needed] Most TNG languages are spoken by only a few thousand people, with only seven (Melpa, Kuman, Enga, Huli, Western Dani, Makasae...
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(= Yu We?) Mount Hagen Melpa (Medlpa) Kaugel River Imbo Ungu Umbu-Ungu Mbo-Ung (Bo-Ung) Several of the Chimbu–Wahgi languages have uncommon lateral consonants:...
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western end of the Maikmol Villages. There are some people that speak the Melpa language of the Hagen and these people live along the range towards the western...
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reported 2011), and Melpa (130,000 reported 1991) in the eastern (PNG) highlands. To the west of New Guinea, the largest languages are Makasae in East...
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Golin, Kuman, Nomane, Salt-Yui, Sinasina Hagen branch Melpa (Medlpa) language Kaugel languages: Imbongu, Mbo-Ung, Umbu-Ungu Jimi branch: Maring, Narak...
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allophone of the velar lateral approximant in some languages of New Guinea, such as Kanite and Melpa. The extremely short duration of the [ʟ] in intervocalic...
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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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(allophonic in Iwaidja and Ilgar) Velar lateral flap [ʟ̆] (in Kanite and Melpa) Alveolar lateral ejective affricate [tɬʼ] (in Baslaney, Navajo, Tlingit)...
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The Madang or Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen...
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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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dental fricative release" A velar lateral flap [ʟ̆] occurs in Kanite and Melpa, so perhaps the flap here is also lateral. Monosyllables with falling tone...
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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 Asmat – Kamrau Bay languages are a family of a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Asmat and related peoples in southern Western New Guinea...
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Indigenous people of New Guinea (redirect from Indigenous languages of New Guinea)
Hewa Huli Iatmul Kaluli Kwoma Koteka Maisin (AN with many non-AN elements) Melpa Mian Morkai Motu Min Mundugumor Ogea Orokaiva Sambia Swagap Tairora Tanga...
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The Finisterre languages are a language family, spoken in the Finisterre Range of Papua New Guinea, classified within the original Trans–New Guinea (TNG)...
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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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The Greater Binanderean or Guhu-Oro languages are a language family spoken along the northeast coast of the Papuan Peninsula – the "Bird's Tail" of 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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The Engan languages, or more precisely Enga–Kewa–Huli or Enga – Southern Highland, are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New...
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The Kainantu–Goroka languages are a family of Papuan languages established by Arthur Capell in 1948 under the name East Highlands. They formed the core...
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The Turama–Kikorian languages are a family identified by Arthur Capell (1962) and part of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) family in the classifications...
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Voiceless velar lateral fricative (category Articles containing Archi-language text)
fricatives or affricates. In New Guinea, some of the Chimbu–Wahgi languages such as Melpa, Middle Wahgi, and Nii, have a voiceless velar lateral fricative...
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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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a recently discovered Papuan language cluster spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia, to the south of the Somahai languages. All that is known of them is...
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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 Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New...
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