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The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages. Contact All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea), have subject–object–verb (SOV) word order due to influences from nearby Papuan languages (Lynch, Ross, & Crowley 2002:104). Universally, this is considered to be a typologically unusual change. Since these non- Austronesian influences can be reconstructed for Proto-Papuan Tip, they did not simply result from recent contact among individual daughter languages. Languages According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows: *Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage **Suauic linkage: Buhutu, 'Auhelawa, Oya'oya, Unubahe, Saliba, Suau, Bwanabwana, Wagawaga **North Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux linkage *** Anuki *** Gumawana ***Bwaidoga: Bwaidoka, Diodio (West Goodenough), Iamalele, Iduna, Koluwawa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Mainland Australia, Australia by the wide Torres Strait, though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf, and were united during episodes of low sea level in the Pleistocene glaciations as the combined landmass of Sahul. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The island's name was given by Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez during his maritime expedition of 1545 due to the perceived resemblance of the indigenous peoples of the island to those in the Guinea (region), African region of Guinea. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the nation of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suau Language
Suau, also known as Iou, is an Oceanic language spoken in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by 6,800 people and a further 14,000 as a lingua franca A lingua franca (; ; for plurals see ), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a Natural language, language systematically used to make co .... Phonology * Some village dialects also include a fricative sound . * can also be heard as a flap in free variation. * may also rarely be pronounced as among speakers. External links Ekalesia Bukana (1895) Anglican Morning Prayer in Suau, digitized by Richard Mammana *Paradisec haa number of collections of Suau materials including two collections of Arthur Cappell'sAC1 . References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunama Language
Bunama is an Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... Phonology Consonants * can fluctuate to aspirated in stressed syllables. * can also be heard as word-initially in stressed syllables. * can be heard as a fricative intervocalically in word-medial position. * can be heard as a tap intervocalically in word-medial position. * can be heard as a more fronted in unstressed syllables following vowels . * Prevoicing of the lateral flap may also occur in initial positions. * may also be heard as a retroflex flap depending on the dialect of the speaker. It can also be heard as when realized as prevoiced in word-initial positions. * may fluctuate to a labio-dental among some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molima Language
Molima is an Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... Phonology Consonants * may also occur as an allophone of , or as a result of borrowed words from Dobu, Motu or English. * can be weakened as in all environments, in free variation. * , when preceding a vowel, may also be realized as a semivowel . Vowels References Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Languages of Milne Bay Province D'Entrecasteaux Islands {{PapuanTip-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobu Language
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands D'Entrecasteaux Islands () are situated near the eastern tip of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The group spans a distance of , has a total land area of approximately and is separated from the Papua New G .... Phonology Consonants * Sounds may also be aspirated in free variation as in all environments. * The lateral flap may fluctuate with an alveolar vibrant flap depending on the dialect of the speaker. * may also fluctuate with a fricative within vocabulary. Vowels * may be heard as in unstressed syllables. * may be heard as slightly more centralized when following labialized consonants in unstressed positions. * may be heard as in unstressed syllables. External links An open access collection of singing in Dobuis available through Paradisec. * His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiadomu Language
Maiadomu is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... References Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Languages of Milne Bay Province {{PapuanTip-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koluwawa Language
Koluwawa is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... References Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Languages of Milne Bay Province {{PapuanTip-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iduna Language
Iduna is an Austronesian language spoken on Goodenough Island of Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Phonology Consonants The inventory of the Iduna language consists of 14 consonant phonemes.. Voiced plosives generally contrast with their unvoiced counterparts, except for the bilabial series, where varies freely between and . Moreover, the phoneme is commonly realized as , though for some speakers it may be pronounced as a voiced fricative without contrast. Finally, has also two allophonic realizations: occurs word-initially and word-medially before non-front vowels , or , whereas only appears before front vowels or . Other minor allophonic realizations may occur. Among these variations only the last one is reflected in the orthography. Vowels There are five vowel phonemes in Iduna. Vowels have allophones too. The major allophonic variations are described in the following table. These include the double realization of , which corresponds to when f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iamalele Language
Iamalele (Yamalele) is an Austronesian language spoken on Fergusson Island in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... References Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Languages of Milne Bay Province {{PapuanTip-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diodio Language
Diodio, or West Goodenough, is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ..., on Goodenough Island, which it shares with Bwaidoka, Iduna, and Kaninuwa. References Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Languages of Milne Bay Province {{PapuanTip-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bwaidoka Language
Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... It is a local lingua franca. Phonology Consonants * can be pronounced as alveolar , or dental when preceding central or back vowels. * can be pronounced as a voiced plosive , or as a fricative on an unstressed syllable. * can be pronounced as either or as in free variation. Vowels * Vowel sounds do not occur following labialized consonants. * may fluctuate freely from to in syllable-final, and with as the first vowel sound on stressed syllables. * may fluctuate freely from to on unstressed syllables and as the second vowel sound on stressed syllables. * may fluctuate freely from to on unstressed syllables and as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gumawana Language
Gumawana (sometimes also referred to by the exonym Gumasi) is an Austronesian language spoken by people living on the Amphlett Islands of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Classification Gumawana is an Austronesian language of the North Papuan Mainland-D'Entrecasteaux branch. Geographic distribution Gumawana is spoken by some 470 people in the small Amphlett Islands of Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay Province. The language is spoken on the four inhabited islands of the archipelago: Nubogeta, Gumawana, Omea, and Bituma. Gumawama has been influenced by the nearby Dobu language, and speakers of Gumawana often have knowledge of other neighboring Papuan Tip languages The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages. Contact All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New G .... Dialects Gumawana had three dialects: Nubogeta, Omea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
