• 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 141°02′01″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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  • Pyu language may refer to: Pyu language (Papuan), a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea Pyu language (Sino-Tibetan), an ancient Sino-Tibetan language...
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  • by some 4,000 people in the north of Papua New Guinea, near the border with Indonesia. The term "Kwomtari languages" can also refer to one of the established...
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  • is a language family of New Guinea, proposed by Timothy Usher, that includes the Arai (Left May) and Samaia (Amto–Musan) languages and the Pyu isolate...
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  • River of Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Foley (2018) and Usher (2020) agree that the family consists of two languages. Amto–Musan / Samaia River...
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  • language (Papuan), language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea Pyu Township, township in Taungoo District in the Bago Region of Burma (Myanmar) Pyu to Fuku...
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    Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International...
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  • easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. There were an estimated 5,000 speakers in 2015, comprising the entire...
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  • western end of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Ama is the best documented Left May language. The languages are: Iteri (Rocky Peak), Nakwi, Ama...
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  • other South Pauwasi languages. An automated computational analysis (ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013) found lexical similarities with Pyu. However, since the...
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  • well. Some cognates connecting the languages are as follows. There are also loanwords in common with Pyu. New Guinea World, South Pauwasi River Wichmann...
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    The Puyuma language or Pinuyumayan (Chinese: 卑南語; pinyin: Bēinányǔ), is the language of the Puyuma, an indigenous people of Taiwan. It is a divergent...
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  • Papuan Linguistic Research: Western New Guinea Area" (PDF). In Wurm, Stephen A. (ed.). New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study, Volume 1: Papuan...
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    Star Mountains (category Mountain ranges of Papua New Guinea)
    Papua New Guinea and the eastern end of Highland Papua, Indonesia, stretching from the eastern end of Indonesia to the Hindenburg Range in Papua New Guinea...
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  • Kwomtari family: Guriaso language Kwomtari–Nai: Kwomtari, Nai (Biaka) ? Pyu family-level isolate (included in the Kwomtari languages by Laycock (1973), but...
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    Volker, Craig A. (2017). "Language Contact in the German Colonies: Papua New Guinea and beyond" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-07-14. Kiautschou Pidgin German,...
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  • extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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  • Glottolog (category Language families)
    related. Geographic regions include "Papunesia" (a portmanteau of Papua (New Guinea) and Austronesia), which refers to the islands of Insular Southeast...
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  • government (LLG) of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located along the border with Keerom Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia. Rivers that flow...
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    Southeast Asia (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
    between Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian region of Western New Guinea (Papua and West Papua). Both countries share the island of New Guinea. Islands...
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    The Formosan languages are a geographic grouping comprising the languages of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, all of which are Austronesian. They do not...
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  • List of earthquakes in 2018 (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    mainly by liquefaction and a tsunami. Other deadly events took place in Papua New Guinea, Japan, Haiti, Taiwan and Mexico. The strongest quake with a magnitude...
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    Rohingya people (category CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id))
    states historian Aye Chan. The Rakhines were one of the tribes of the Burmese Pyu city-states. The Rakhines began migrating to Arakan through the Arakan Mountains...
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  • languages of Papua New Guinea Lee, Joan H. (Canada, 1981–), text messaging Leech, Geoffrey (UK, 1936–2014), applied linguistics, English language Lees...
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with P. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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  • List of dynasties (category Articles containing Khmer-language text)
    Монгол улс) (AD 1911–1919, AD 1921–1924) – Limited international recognition Pyu dynasty (c. 3000 BC–AD 400) First Tagaung dynasty (c. 850 BC–?) – Legendary...
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    of Papua New Guinea; the ancient trading voyages in Micronesia between the Mariana Islands and the Caroline Islands (and possibly also New Guinea and...
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    Ireland, Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore "Myanmar - Pyu State, Ancient Cities, Irrigation | The kingdom of Pagan (849–c. 1300)"....
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    Islam in Myanmar (category CS1 Burmese-language sources (my))
    Thiriswe Book House. Tun, Than (2006). Pyūtve bhay' pyok' svā´´ salai [Ancient Pyu] (in Burmese). Ū´´ Kyo` HanH`´´. US Department of State (4 March 2002). "Burma:...
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