• Selepet (or Selepe) is a Papuan language spoken in Selepet Rural LLG, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Below are some reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea...
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  • Madang languages#Evolution Kalam language#Evolution Apali language#Evolution Finisterre–Huon languages#Evolution Kâte language#Evolution Selepet language#Evolution...
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  • Selepet Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The Selepet language is spoken in the LLG. 02. Nimbako 03. Wap...
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    imeŋ ‘louse’ < *iman ‘louse’ no ‘1sg’ < *na ‘1sg’ nɔ- ‘eat’ < *na- Selepet language: balam ‘flame’ < *mbalaŋ (ni)bilim ‘tongue’ < *mbilaŋ kɔlɔp ‘fire’...
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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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  • noun-demonstrative order language. This order is usual for neighbouring languages in the Morobe Province, such as Sio and Selepet, as well as in West New...
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  • probable reflexes in the Apali, Kalam, Kâte, Selepet, Binandere, Katei, Kiwai, Telefol, and Asmat languages. Middle Wahgi distinguishes 14 color terms (from...
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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 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 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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    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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  • Momuna (Momina), also known as Somahai (Somage, Sumohai), is a Papuan language spoken in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua and Asmat Regency, South Papua...
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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 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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  • 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 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 Anim or Fly River languages are a language family in south-central New Guinea established by Usher & Suter (2015). The names of the family derive from...
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  • Thumbnail for Alor–Pantar languages
    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Kayagar languages
    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 moribund Papuan language of the Kolopom branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It is separated from the other Kolopom languages by the intrusive Marind...
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    The Duna–Pogaya (Duna–Bogaia) languages are a proposed small family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Voorhoeve (1975), Ross (2005)...
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  • Thumbnail for Turama–Kikorian languages
    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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  • Burum (Mindik), Borong (Kosorong) Kinalakna, Kumokio Mese, Nabak Komba, Selepet–Timbe Nomu Ono Sialum Kâte is the local lingua franca. Ross, Malcolm (2005)...
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    River languages are a family of Papuan languages. The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum. Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which...
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  • Thumbnail for Engan languages
    Engan, or more precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches...
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  • Thumbnail for Goilalan languages
    The Goilalan or Wharton Range languages are a language family spoken around the Wharton Range in the "Bird's Tail" of New Guinea. They were classified...
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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 Awyu or Digul River languages, known in earlier classifications with more limited scope as Awyu–Dumut (Awyu–Ndumut), are a family of perhaps...
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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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