Momuna (Momina), also known as Somahai (Somage, Sumohai), is a Papuan language spoken in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua and Asmat Regency, South Papua...

precedents in earlier studies. The languages of Momuna–Mek are the Mek language family and the Momuna (Somahai) language. Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant...

An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...

Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that...

indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca...

Jaya among the Papuan languages: History, typology and speech. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 148(3/4): 465–488. Momuna–Mek, New Guinea World...

Proto-Trans–New Guinea is the reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the Trans–New Guinea languages. Reconstructions have been proposed by Malcolm Ross...

Most languages belong to the Austronesian language family, while there are over 270 Papuan languages spoken in eastern Indonesia. The language most widely...

perpetuating the myth that cannibalism is still an active practice. Members of the Momuna tribe, a sister tribe of the Korowai, whose tribe does not engage in cannibalism...

Kutai is a Malayic language spoken by 300,000 to 500,000 people. It is the native language of the Kutai people (Indonesian: Suku Kutai, Kutai: Urang Kutai)[what...