Yabem, or Jabêm, is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. Yabem belongs to the division of the Melanesian languages spoken natively (in 1978)...

government usage is Bukawa (Eckermann 2007:1), even though it comes from the Yabem language, which served as a church and school lingua franca in the coastal areas...

districts. At least 101 languages are spoken, including Kâte and Yabem language. English and Tok Pisin are common languages in the urban areas, and in...

Yabim, also spelled Yabem and Jabem, are a people in Papua New Guinea. They speak the Yabem language. German missionaries visited them and wrote about...

tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the...

Gulf languages, it is the most conservative member of its subgroup. The term Iwal is an endonym. Cognates in other related languages include Yabem Iwac...

suprasegmentals on vowels: phonemic tone in Yabem and Bukawa (Ross 1993) and nasalization in Kela (Johnson 1994). Yabem Bukawa Kela Eckermann, W. (2007). A descriptive...

western Java. It is the native language of more than 68 million people. Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers...

Bekatiʼ (Bekatiq, Bakati) is a Dayak language of Borneo. Bekatiʼ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Tampajara, Hilarinus (2013). Kamus...

high and low pitch (or "tone"), just as in Yabêm, the Lutheran mission lingua franca for the coastal languages of Morobe Province during much of the 20th...