• Tuma, or (Upper) Irumu, is of one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. Tuma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) v t e v...
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  • (Komutu), Yau, ?Weliki Wantoat branch: Awara–Wantoat (Yagawak, Bam), Tuma-Irumu Warup branch: Asaro'o (Morafa) – Molet, Bulgebi, Degenan–Tanda, Forak...
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    Trans–New 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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    Université libre de Bruxelles dissertation. Bokula, Moiso & Agozia-Kario Irumu. 1994. Bibliographie et matériaux lexicaux des langues Moru-Mangbetu (Soudan-Central...
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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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    The Chimbu–Wahgi languages are a language family sometimes included in the Trans–New Guinea proposal. There is little doubt that the Chimbu–Wahgi family...
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  • a recently discovered Papuan language cluster spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia, to the south of the Somahai languages. All that is known of them is...
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    ‘know’ Suena language: boga-masa ‘destitute’ < *mbeŋga-masi ‘orphan, widow and child’ mia ‘mother’ < *am(a,i) tumou ‘night’ < *k(i,u)tuma ma ‘taro’ < *mV...
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    The Madang or Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen...
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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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