• 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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    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 (list) Proto-Austronesian (list) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayic Proto-Philippine Proto-Oceanic Proto-Central Pacific language...
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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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  • The Awyu–Ok languages are a group of TransNew Guinea families in central New Guinea established by Timothy Usher, though with precedents in earlier studies...
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    Wurm's 1960 East New Guinea Highlands family (the precursor of TransNew Guinea), and are one of the larger branches of TransNew Guinea in the 2005 classification...
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    moribund Abom language, previously considered a member of the Tirio family, is of uncertain classification, possibly TransNew Guinea, but does not appear...
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  • Jayapura Regency, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's TransNew Guinea proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed (*genam "I" and...
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    his 1975 TransNew Guinea proposal. Wurm thought it likely that many of these languages would prove to not actually belong to TransNew Guinea, but rather...
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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 TransNew Guinea proposal; Usher links them with the...
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    Kaure, Kembra, Lakes Plain, and Keuw languages. New Guinea portal TransNew Guinea languages Proto-TransNew Guinea "Papuan". www.languagesgulper.com. Retrieved...
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  • Thumbnail for Asmat–Kamrau languages
    Kamrau Bay languages are a family of a dozen TransNew Guinea languages spoken by the Asmat and related peoples in southern Western New Guinea. They are...
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  • Thumbnail for Greater Awyu languages
    River languages, known in earlier classifications with more limited scope as Awyu–Dumut (Awyu–Ndumut), are a family of perhaps a dozen TransNew Guinea languages...
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  • links with TransNew Guinea. Usher & Schapper (2022) find them to be one of three branches of the West Bomberai family within TransNew Guinea, with regular...
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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 TransNew Guinea by Stephen Wurm, followed...
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    Trans-Fly family of the TransNew Guinea Phylum by Stephen Wurm, who however felt that these have retained remnants of pre-TransNew Guinea languages;...
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    branch of the TransNew Guinea languages by Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), but removed (along with the related Goilalan languages) by Timothy...
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  • Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of TransNew Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They...
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  • reflect proto-TransNew Guinea *na, *ga, *ja, *i. Makayam at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village...
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    classified as part of Trans-New Guinea, though they do note the following lexical resemblances between Uhunduni and proto-Trans-New Guinea. no- ‘eat’ < *na-...
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  • Thumbnail for Kamula–Elevala languages
    Kamula–Elevala languages are a small family of the TransNew Guinea languages spoken in the region of the Elevala River. There are three languages, namely Aekyowm...
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  • Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the TransNew Guinea proposal. Unlike the neighboring...
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    Linguistically, Papuans speak languages from the many families of non-Austronesian languages that are found only on New Guinea and neighboring islands, as...
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  • list of Proto-Northern Adelbert forms that are descended from Proto-TransNew Guinea.: 470  Pick, Andrew (2017). "A Reconstruction of Proto-Croiselles...
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    related to the Papuan languages of eastern Timor, but this is not yet clear. A more distant relationship with the TransNew Guinea languages of the Bomberai...
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    of TransNew Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. Possible reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are: Gogodala language: omo...
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  • reconstructable is proto Trans New Guinea? Problems, progress, prospects". History, Contact and Classification of Papuan Languages (Language & Linguistics...
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  • Thumbnail for Mek languages
    reconstructions by Usher (2020) are: Mek reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are: Eipo language: mun ‘belly’ < *mundun ‘internal organs’ kuna ‘shadow’...
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  • consonants. The Lakes Plain languages were tentatively grouped by Stephen Wurm with the Tor languages in his TransNew Guinea proposal. Clouse (1997) rejected...
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    A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term family is...
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