The Northwest Papuan languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages. Many of the constituent branches of Northwest Papuan were first proposed...
3 KB (233 words) - 03:44, 15 August 2024
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
60 KB (3,726 words) - 23:39, 24 August 2024
The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains...
4 KB (337 words) - 07:42, 20 April 2024
province of Papua (formerly known as Irian Jaya). Skou languages are unusual among Papuan languages for being tonal; all Skou languages possess contrastive...
16 KB (1,231 words) - 21:49, 3 August 2024
The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages. All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and...
5 KB (327 words) - 05:44, 10 March 2023
classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea...
7 KB (585 words) - 10:17, 4 August 2024
Unlike the neighboring Sepik languages and many other Papuan language families of northern New Guinea, Border languages do not have grammatical gender...
11 KB (735 words) - 10:10, 4 August 2024
family of Northwest Solomonic languages is a branch of the Oceanic languages. It includes the Austronesian languages of Bougainville and Buka in Papua New Guinea...
6 KB (376 words) - 18:43, 18 October 2023
The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal...
22 KB (1,640 words) - 20:38, 3 August 2024
Papuan languages Northwest Papuan languages Laycock, D. C. and Z'graggen, John A. 1975. The Sepik-Ramu Phylum. In Wurm, S.A. (ed.), Papuan Languages and...
8 KB (463 words) - 03:45, 15 August 2024