Awa is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea. /p/, /t/, and /k/ are [β], [ɾ], and [ɣ] intervocalically after mid and back vowels /r/ is [d] following...
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Awa language (China) or Wa (Va) language, language of the Wa people of Burma and China Awa language (Papua New Guinea), a Kainantu language of Papua New...
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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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reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are: Awa language: are 'ear' < *kand(e,i)k(V] nu 'louse' < *niman Tairora language: ato 'ear' < *kand(e,i)k(V]...
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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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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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dialects of a language spoken in Jetfa District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia, and across the border in Papua New Guinea. It is a...
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Micronesia to atolls scattered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands or Vanuatu. The most prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan...
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East New Guinea Highlands is a 1960 proposal by Stephen Wurm for a family of Papuan languages spoken in Papua New Guinea that formed part of his 1975...
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Tairoa (Tairora) is a Kainantu language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Tairoa proper, or North Tairoa, includes dialects Aantantara (Andandara), Arau-Varosia...
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