Proto-Trans–New Guinea is the reconstructed proto-language ancestral to the Trans–New Guinea languages. Reconstructions have been proposed by Malcolm Ross...
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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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Proto-Trans–New Guinea (list) Proto-Austronesian (list) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Malayic Proto-Philippine Proto-Oceanic Proto-Central Pacific language...
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Wurm's 1960 East New Guinea Highlands family (the precursor of Trans–New Guinea), and are one of the larger branches of Trans–New Guinea in the 2005 classification...
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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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The Awyu–Ok languages are a group of Trans–New Guinea families in central New Guinea established by Timothy Usher, though with precedents in earlier studies...
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moribund Abom language, previously considered a member of the Tirio family, is of uncertain classification, possibly Trans–New Guinea, but does not appear...
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Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They...
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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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his 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal. Wurm thought it likely that many of these languages would prove to not actually belong to Trans–New Guinea, but rather...
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Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross's version of the Trans–New Guinea proposal. Unlike the neighboring...
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Kamrau Bay languages are a family of a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Asmat and related peoples in southern Western New Guinea. They are...
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reflect proto-Trans–New 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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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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links with Trans–New Guinea. Usher & Schapper (2022) find them to be one of three branches of the West Bomberai family within Trans–New Guinea, with regular...
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River languages, known in earlier classifications with more limited scope as Awyu–Dumut (Awyu–Ndumut), are a family of perhaps a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages...
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of Trans–New 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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Selepe) is a Papuan language spoken in Selepet Rural LLG, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Below are some reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by Pawley...
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Kaure, Kembra, Lakes Plain, and Keuw languages. New Guinea portal Trans–New Guinea languages Proto-Trans–New Guinea "Papuan". www.languagesgulper.com. Retrieved...
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Trans-Fly family of the Trans–New Guinea Phylum by Stephen Wurm, who however felt that these have retained remnants of pre-Trans–New Guinea languages;...
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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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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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list of Proto-Northern Adelbert forms that are descended from Proto-Trans–New Guinea.: 470 Pick, Andrew (2017). "A Reconstruction of Proto-Croiselles...
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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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consonants. The Lakes Plain languages were tentatively grouped by Stephen Wurm with the Tor languages in his Trans–New Guinea proposal. Clouse (1997) rejected...
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Asmat–Muli Strait languages are a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages spoken along the southern coast of Indonesian New Guinea, established by Timothy...
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branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages by Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), but removed (along with the related Goilalan languages) by Timothy...
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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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reconstructions by Usher (2020) are: Kiwaian reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea (pTNG) etyma are: Southern Kiwai language: magota ‘mouth’ < *maŋgat[a] amo ‘breast <...
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related to the Papuan languages of eastern Timor, but this is not yet clear. A more distant relationship with the Trans–New Guinea languages of the Bomberai...
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