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    The Eleman languages are a family spoken around Kerema Bay, Papua New Guinea. The five languages of Eleman proper are clearly related. They were identified...
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  • used as a contact language with people who had not fully acquired Hiri Motu, such as the Eleman and Koriki. In the Hiri Motu language, the distinction...
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    The Eleman languages were first proposed by S. Ray in 1907, parts of Marind were recognized by Ray and JHP Murray in 1918, and the Rai Coast languages in...
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    languages spoken in the country. In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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  • designation Raeta Tati. Kaki Ae has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans. Søren Wichmann (2013) tentatively...
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  • Opao is a Trans–New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea. Opao at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) v t e...
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  • Keuru, or Keoru-Ahia after two of its dialects, is a Trans–New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea. Moivo Hivi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
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  • (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Brown, Herbert A. (1973). The Eleman Language Family. In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), The Linguistic Situation in the...
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  • Orokolo is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Ihu Rural LLG, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea by about 50,000 people (2010). Alternate names are Bailala...
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