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Inland Gulf Languages
The Inland Gulf languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005). The unity of the languages was established by K. Franklin in 1969. Although the family as a whole is clearly valid, Ipiko is quite distinct from the other languages. Languages * Inland Gulf family ** ''Ipiko language'' ** Minanibai branch: Minanibai (Foia Foia), Mubami (Tao), Ukusi-Koparamio Hoia Hoia – Matakaia Hoia Hoia Karami Karami (Arabic: كرامي) is an Arabic-based Lebanese surname, particularly that of a famous Lebanese Sunni Muslim political family. It is often francicised in the media as Karamé. It is to be differentiated from the Classical Arabic term Kara ... was once included, due to a large number of loanwords from Minanibai, but is best left unclassified for now. Mahigi is also included by Pawley and Hammarström (2018). Phonemes Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: : Vowels are *a * ... [...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] |
Mubami Language
Mubami is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It goes by the names ''Dausame, Tao-Suamato, Tao-Suame,'' and ''Ta''. The language is used in all age groups and domains of life, including education, and is therefore counted as not presently endangered. It is spoken in Diwami, Kubeai, Parieme, Paueme, Sogae, Ugu, and Waliho villages on the Guavi and Aramia rivers in Western Province, Papua New Guinea Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua. The provincial capital is Daru. The largest town in the province is Tabubil. Other major settlements ar .... A word list of Mubami can be found in Z'graggen (1975) Phonology Consonants * is mainly heard as a variant of /p/. * ²is heard in the sequence /nj/. Vowels * /e, o/ can also have realizations of ›, É” References External links Mubami New Guinea World. Inland Gulf languages Languages of Papua New Guinea { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inland Gulf Languages
The Inland Gulf languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005). The unity of the languages was established by K. Franklin in 1969. Although the family as a whole is clearly valid, Ipiko is quite distinct from the other languages. Languages * Inland Gulf family ** ''Ipiko language'' ** Minanibai branch: Minanibai (Foia Foia), Mubami (Tao), Ukusi-Koparamio Hoia Hoia – Matakaia Hoia Hoia Karami Karami (Arabic: كرامي) is an Arabic-based Lebanese surname, particularly that of a famous Lebanese Sunni Muslim political family. It is often francicised in the media as Karamé. It is to be differentiated from the Classical Arabic term Kara ... was once included, due to a large number of loanwords from Minanibai, but is best left unclassified for now. Mahigi is also included by Pawley and Hammarström (2018). Phonemes Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: : Vowels are *a * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahigi Language
Foia Foia (Foyafoya), or Minanibai, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in an area near the Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province). Mahigi, a Foia Foia dialect documented in a word list by Cridland (1924), is now extinct.Cridland, E. 1924. Vocabulary of Mahigi. ''British New Guinea Annual Report'' 1923–1924: 58–58. Locations Foia Foia is spoken in Bibisa village (), Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Minanbai is spoken in Moka () and Pepeha () villages of West Kikori Rural LLG, Gulf Province Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is Kerema. The 34,472 km2 province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains. In Gulf Province, the Kiko .... Phonology Vowels Consonants Bibliography ;Word lists *Carr, Philip J. 1991 ''Foyafoya (Bibisa, W.P. at Kamusi), Hoyahoya (Matakaia, W.P. at Gagoro), Hoya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karami Language
Karami is an extinct and unclassified Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. It is attested from only a short word list, which include many loans from Foia Foia.Usher, TimothyInland Gulf family ''New Guinea World''. Geographical distribution According to Flint (1919: 96), from which the only existing word list of Karami is available, Karami was spoken in the villages of Kikimairi and Aduahai, both located near Daru Station, "on the right-hand side (in the bush) of left branch of the Turama River, Western Division, Papua." Classification Although Franklin (1968; 1973: 269-273) classifies Karami as an Inland Gulf language,Franklin, Karl J. 1973. Other language groups in the Gulf District and adjacent areas. In ''The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea'', ed. by Karl J. Franklin, 263‒77. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Usher and Suter (2015: 125) do not consider it to be part of the Anim languages The Anim or Fly River langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matakaia Hoia Hoia Language
Hoia Hoia (Hoyahoya) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It is close to Minanibai. The two varieties, Ukusi-Koparamio Hoia Hoia ("Hoia Hoia" in ''Ethnologue'' 17) and Matakaia Hoia Hoia ("Hoyahoya" in ''Ethnologue'' 17), are distinct languages, though significantly closer to each other than to other Inland Gulf languages. The varieties are spoken in Ukusi-Koparamio (; ) and Matakaia () villages of Bamu Rural LLG in Western Province, Papua New Guinea Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua. The provincial capital is Daru. The largest town in the province is Tabubil. Other major settlements ar ..., respectively. Word lists of Hoia Hoia dialects have been collected by Carr (1991).Carr, Philip J. 1991 ''Foyafoya (Bibisa, W.P. at Kamusi), Hoyahoya (Matakaia, W.P. at Gagoro), Hoyahoya/Hoiahoia (Ukusi-Koperami, W.P. two young men visiting Torobina)''. Manuscript. Phonology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minanibai Language
Foia Foia (Foyafoya), or Minanibai, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea, spoken in an area near the Omati River mouth in Ikobi Kairi and Goaribari Census districts (Gulf Province). Mahigi, a Foia Foia dialect documented in a word list by Cridland (1924), is now extinct.Cridland, E. 1924. Vocabulary of Mahigi. ''British New Guinea Annual Report'' 1923–1924: 58–58. Locations Foia Foia is spoken in Bibisa village (), Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Minanbai is spoken in Moka () and Pepeha () villages of West Kikori Rural LLG, Gulf Province Gulf Province is a province of Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast. The provincial capital is Kerema. The 34,472 km2 province is dominated by mountains, lowland river deltas, and grassland flood plains. In Gulf Province, the Kiko .... Phonology Vowels Consonants Bibliography ;Word lists *Carr, Philip J. 1991 ''Foyafoya (Bibisa, W.P. at Kamusi), Hoyahoya (Matakaia, W.P. at Gagoro), Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans–New Guinea Languages
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive Language family, family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as Western New Guinea, parts of Indonesia. Trans–New Guinea is perhaps the List of language families#By number of languages, third-largest language family in the world by number of languages. The core of the family is considered to be established, but its boundaries and overall membership are uncertain. The languages are spoken by around 3 million people. There have been several main proposals as to its internal classification. History of the proposal Although Papuan languages for the most part are poorly documented, several of the branches of Trans–New Guinea have been recognized for some time. The Eleman languages were first proposed by S. Ray in 1907, parts of Marind languages, Marind were recognized by Ray and JHP Murray in 1918, and the Rai Coast languages in 1919, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Ross (linguist)
Malcolm David Ross (born 1942) is an Australian linguist. He is the emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University. Ross is best known among linguists for his work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact (especially metatypy). He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1996. Career Ross served as the Principal of Goroka Teachers College in Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982, during which time he self-statedly become interested in local languages, and began to collect data on them. In 1986, he received his PhD from the ANU under the supervision of Stephen Wurm, Bert Voorhoeve and Darrell Tryon. His dissertation was on the genealogy of the Oceanic languages of western Melanesia, and contained an early reconstruction of Proto Oceanic. Malcolm Ross introduced the concept of a linkage, a group of languages that evolves via dialect differentiation rather than by tree-like spli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Wurm
Stephen Adolphe Wurm (, ; 19 August 1922 – 24 October 2001) was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist. Early life Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and the Hungarian-speaking Anna Novroczky. He was christened Istvan Adolphe Wurm. His father died before Stephen was born. Both of his parents were multilingual, and Wurm showed an interest in languages from an early age. Attending school in Vienna and travelling to all parts of Europe during his childhood, Wurm spoke roughly nine languages by the time he reached adulthood, a gift he inherited from his father, who spoke 17. Wurm went on to master at least 50 languages. Career Wurm grew up stateless, unable to take the nationality of either of his parent or of his country of residence, Austria. That enabled him to avoid military service and attend university. He studied Turkic languages at the Oriental Institute in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in linguistics and social anthropo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
