The Piawi languages are a small family of Papuan languages spoken in the Schraeder Range of the Madang Highlands of Papua New Guinea that had been part...
7 KB (451 words) - 12:38, 4 August 2024
The Upper Yuat languages consist of two small language families, namely Arafundi and Piawi, spoken in the region of the upper Yuat River of New Guinea...
4 KB (305 words) - 07:00, 7 November 2024
independent Nimboran family (5) Piawi, as an independent Piawi family (2) Senagi, as an independent Senagi family (2) Sentani (4 languages), within an East Bird's...
54 KB (3,149 words) - 03:25, 15 August 2024
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
60 KB (3,726 words) - 23:16, 16 October 2024
languages are a small family of clearly related languages in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. They are conjectured to be related to the Piawi and...
6 KB (532 words) - 10:24, 19 July 2024
languages spoken in the country. In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages...
13 KB (1,109 words) - 15:33, 23 October 2024
Bernard Comrie (category Linguists of Piawi languages)
languages. Comrie was born in Sunderland, England on 23 May 1947. He earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Modern and Medieval Languages and...
8 KB (602 words) - 20:36, 10 November 2024
(2005) and Usher reject inclusion. Laycock (1973) also includes the Piawi languages as a branch, but Ross (2005), Foley (2005) and Usher all reject their...
9 KB (639 words) - 23:58, 19 July 2024
Hagahai, also known as Pinai, is one of two languages of the Piawi family of New Guinea. Speakers in Enga Province use the name Pinai for all Pinai-Hagahai...
2 KB (97 words) - 13:28, 18 May 2023
the main language families of the world The language families of Africa Map of the Austronesian languages Map of major Dravidian languages Distribution...
34 KB (304 words) - 13:00, 9 November 2024
Haruai (less commonly Harway) is one of two languages of the Piawi family of New Guinea. The language has borrowings from Kalam. Young men are likely...
7 KB (672 words) - 00:54, 12 January 2024
Donald Laycock (category Linguists of Papuan languages)
group. Laycock also first identified the Torricelli (1968) and Piawi groups of languages. He published numerous papers in linguistics and anthropology...
7 KB (634 words) - 01:10, 28 May 2024
Glottolog (category Language families)
of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database...
31 KB (668 words) - 21:16, 17 August 2024