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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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    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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    Kiwaian, on the banks and east of the Fly River Waia, north of the Fly delta Tirio, on the western bank of the Fly River Eastern Trans-Fly languages,...
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    (tentatively) in TNG (Kiwaian, Moraori, Tirio), plus the independent South-Central Papuan and Eastern Trans-Fly families (22 and 4 languages). Andrew Pawley...
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    the Kiwaian languages, but it is now recognized that many actually have a paucal instead. Linguist Michael Cysouw has suggested that most languages reported...
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  • analysis. University of North Dakota. Wurm, Stephen A. (1973). The Kiwaian Language Family. In Karl J. Franklin (ed.), The Linguistic Situation in the...
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    Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages...
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    local-level government (LLG) of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Kiwaian languages are spoken in the LLG. 01. Sigabaduru 02. Mabudawan 03. Tureture 04...
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  • Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. Kiwaian languages are spoken in the LLG. 01. Haivaro 02. Moka (Minanibai language speakers) 03. Komaio 04. Masusu 05...
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  • Bamu, or Bamu Kiwai, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. A thousand speakers of Gama are included in the ISO code for Bamu. However, Ethnologue...
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