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    Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...
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    Porome Purari Tabo Baining North Bougainville South Bougainville Butam-Taulil Anêm Ata Kol Kuot Makolkol Sulka Yélî Dnye People speaking languages belonging...
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    advantage of these similarities, systematizing common standards then named línguas gerais ("general languages"), which were spoken in that region until the...
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    relationship of Nivkh to Chukotko-Kamchatkan revisited". Lingua. 121 (8): 1359–1376. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2011.03.001. Joan Oates (1979). Babylon [Revised Edition]...
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  • have more than two possessive classes. In Papua New Guinea, for example, Anêm has at least 20 classes, and Amele has 32. Statistically, 15–20% of the world's...
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  • borrowed words from other languages, such as Austronesian languages like Anêm and Papuan due to trade. Some examples of loanwords are tavila 'large wooden...
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    Haudricourt, André G. (1965). "Problems of Austronesian comparative philology". Lingua. 14: 315–329. doi:10.1016/0024-3841(65)90048-3. Ko, Albert Min-Shan; et al...
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    M. C. V. de. (2015). Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro. LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 15(2), 223 – 277. doi:10.20396/liames...
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