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    TransNew Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to...
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  • Proto-TransNew Guinea is the reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the TransNew Guinea languages. Reconstructions have been proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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  • Thumbnail for West Trans–New Guinea languages
    The West TransNew Guinea languages are a suggested linguistic linkage of Papuan languages, not well established as a group, proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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    The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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  • Thumbnail for Eastern Trans-Fly languages
    his purported Trans-Fly languages were not in the TransNew Guinea family but rather heavily influenced by TransNew Guinea languages. Ross (2005) removed...
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    Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related TransNew Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea...
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  • Thumbnail for Central West New Guinea languages
    The Central West New Guinea languages are a group of TransNew Guinea families in central New Guinea established by Timothy Usher, though with precedents...
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    The Mombum languages, also known as the Komolom or Muli Strait languages, are a pair of TransNew Guinea languages, Mombum (Komolom) and Koneraw, spoken...
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  • Thumbnail for Trans-Fly–Bulaka River languages
    The Trans-Fly–Bulaka River aka South-Central Papuan languages form a hypothetical family of Papuan languages. They include many of the languages west of...
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    Bird's Head or South Doberai languages are three families of Papuan languages. They form part of the TransNew Guinea languages in the classifications of...
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