• 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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    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 Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains...
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    The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages. All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and...
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  • province of Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya). Skou languages are unusual among Papuan languages for being tonal; all Skou languages possess contrastive...
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  • classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea...
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  • Unlike the neighboring Sepik languages and many other Papuan language families of northern New Guinea, Border languages do not have grammatical gender...
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  • 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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  • Papuan languages Northwest Papuan languages Laycock, D. C. and Z'graggen, John A. 1975. The Sepik-Ramu Phylum. In Wurm, S.A. (ed.), Papuan Languages and...
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  • family of Northwest Solomonic languages is a branch of the Oceanic languages. It includes the Austronesian languages of Bougainville and Buka in Papua New Guinea...
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    East Cenderawasih languages are a language family of a dozen Papuan languages along the eastern coast of Geelvink Bay in Indonesian Papua, which is also...
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    Central Solomon languages are the four Papuan languages spoken in the state of Solomon Islands. The four languages are, listed from northwest to southeast...
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    The Papuan Peninsula, also known as the Bird's Tail Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Papua New Guinea, southeast of the city of Lae, that makes up the...
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    Southwest Papua also have a variety of regional languages, Papuan Malay is lingua franca in this area. Based on language map data published by the Language Development...
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    Nawa River languages are a small family spoken along the Nawa River in West Papua, near the northern border with Papua New Guinea. The languages are Kaure...
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    The Yawa languages, also known as Yapen languages, are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often...
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  • comparison West Papuan Highlands languages#Lexical comparison Northwest Papuan languages#Lexical comparison Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages#Lexical comparison...
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  • been classified either as heavily Papuanized Austronesian languages belonging to the SHWNG branch, or as Papuan languages that had undergone heavy Austronesian...
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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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    two large groups, Austronesian languages and non-Austronesian, or Papuan, languages. There are four languages in Papua New Guinea with some statutory...
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    The Fas languages are a small language family of Papua New Guinea. Despite the fact that the family consists of just two closely related languages, Baibai...
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    roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Tabi Saireri. It is bordered by the sovereign state of Papua New Guinea to the east, the Pacific...
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    Bird's Head Peninsula (category Landforms of West Papua (province))
    non-Austronesian Papuan languages native to the peninsula, which are classified as South Bird's Head languages, East Bird's Head languages, West Bird's Head...
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    Melanesians (category Ethnic groups in Papua New Guinea)
    many languages of the Austronesian language family (especially ones in the Oceanic branch) or one of the many unrelated families of Papuan languages. There...
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  • The Orya–Tor languages are a family of just over a dozen Papuan languages spoken in Western New Guinea, Indonesia. The Tor family, named after the Tor...
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    or Kratke Range languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The Angan languages are clearly valid...
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    Oceanic linkage North New Guinea linkage Papuan Tip languages Temotu languages Southeast Solomonic languages Southern Oceanic linkage North Vanuatu linkage...
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    The Mairasi languages, also known as Etna Bay are a small independent family of Papuan languages in the classifications of Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher...
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    Each Papuan tribe usually practices its traditions and culture, which may differ greatly from one tribe to another. One of the most well-known Papuan traditions...
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    few "Papuan" (Non-Austronesian) families of the central and eastern Malay Archipelago: such as the Timor-Alor-Pantar and North Halmahera languages, and...
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