• Awa is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea. /p/, /t/, and /k/ are [β], [ɾ], and [ɣ] intervocalically after mid and back vowels /r/ is [d] following...
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  • Awa language (China) or Wa (Va) language, language of the Wa people of Burma and China Awa language (Papua New Guinea), a Kainantu language of Papua New...
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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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    reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are: Awa language: are 'ear' < *kand(e,i)k(V] nu 'louse' < *niman Tairora language: ato 'ear' < *kand(e,i)k(V]...
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  • Northeast New Guinea Papuan Languages" (PDF). Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. 28. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea; Society...
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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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  • dialects of a language spoken in Jetfa District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia, and across the border in Papua New Guinea. It is a...
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    Micronesia to atolls scattered in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands or Vanuatu. The most prominent Polynesian languages, by number of speakers, are Samoan...
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  • Tairoa (Tairora) is a Kainantu language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Tairoa proper, or North Tairoa, includes dialects Aantantara (Andandara), Arau-Varosia...
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    Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea...
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  • East New Guinea Highlands is a 1960 proposal by Stephen Wurm for a family of Papuan languages spoken in Papua New Guinea that formed part of his 1975...
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    Suki – Aramia River languages are a small language family of Papua New Guinea, spoken in the region of the Aramia River. The languages are: Gogodala–Suki...
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    languages, or more precisely Enga–Kewa–Huli or Enga – Southern Highland, are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea....
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  • Baliem Valley in the Highland Papua, Indonesia. Foley (2003)[citation needed] considers their Trans–New Guinea language group status to be established...
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  • Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea. The Kwalean languages are spoken in Rigo District, Central Province, Papua New Guinea. The languages are Humene...
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  • New Guinea. They are classified within the Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea. The languages are: Koiaric branch (Koiari): Grass Koiari, Mountain...
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    The Duna–Pogaya (Duna–Bogaia) languages are a proposed small family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Voorhoeve (1975), Ross (2005)...
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  • Western New Guinea in the Paniai Lakes region of Papua. Foley (2003) considers their Trans–New Guinea status to be established. The languages are: Paniai...
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  • hypothetical language macrofamily proposed in 1971 by Joseph Greenberg and now believed to be spurious. It grouped together the Papuan languages of New Guinea and...
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  • Thumbnail for Angan languages
    or Kratke Range languages are a family of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The Angan languages are clearly valid...
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  • Thumbnail for Bosavi languages
    The Bosavi or Papuan Plateau languages belong to the Trans-New Guinea language family according to the classifications made by Malcolm Ross and Timothy...
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  • Thumbnail for Kolopom languages
    The Kolopom languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005). Along with the...
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  • New Guinea. They are classified within the Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea. The languages, which all share about half of their vocabulary, are...
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  • Thumbnail for Chimbu–Wahgi languages
    The Chimbu–Wahgi languages are a language family of New Guinea. They are sometimes included in the Trans–New Guinea proposal; Usher links them with the...
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    cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: Papuan languages Districts of Papua for a list of districts and villages with respective languages Foley, William...
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  • Thumbnail for West Trans–New Guinea languages
    The West Trans–New Guinea languages are a suggested linguistic linkage of Papuan languages, not well established as a group, proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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  • Thumbnail for Madang languages
    Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen Wurm, followed...
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    the Trans-New Guinea database: Mairasi languages Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew...
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  • Thumbnail for Kamula–Elevala languages
    Kamula–Elevala languages are a small family of the Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the region of the Elevala River. There are three languages, namely Aekyowm...
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  • Thumbnail for East Strickland languages
    River languages are a family of Papuan languages. The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum. Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which...
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