• Bulu is an Oceanic language of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Bulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e...
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  • Malayo-Polynesian language of the central southern coast of the Papuan Peninsula in Papua New Guinea. Paradisec has multiple collections with Toura language materials...
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  • an extinct Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It was restructured through contact with neighboring Papuan languages, and it turn influencing...
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  • Pokau is an Austronesian language of the central southern coast of the Papuan Peninsula in Papua New Guinea. This language is spoken in the villages...
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  • Saliba is an Oceanic language spoken on the islets off the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 2,500 speakers of Saliba. Significant...
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    The West Papuan languages are a proposed language family of about two dozen non-Austronesian languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai...
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    except Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea), have subject–object–verb (SOV) word...
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  • is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people in 1998 in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Laxudumau, spoken...
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  • Boettger, Juliane (2015). Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (Ph.D. thesis). James Cook University. "Lele". Ethnologue...
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  • Two words, búlu and mákan, are clearly Malay loans. Zollinger (1850) identified several possible loans from other Austronesian languages; Tambora was...
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