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Koiarian Languages
The Koiarian languages Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New Guinea. They are classified within the Southeast Papuan languages, Southeast Papuan branch of Trans–New Guinea. Languages The languages are: * Koiaric branch (Koiari): Grass Koiari language, Grass Koiari, Mountain Koiari language, Mountain Koiari–Koitabu language, Koitabu * Baraic branch (Managalas Plateau languages, Managalas Plateau): Barai language, Barai–Namiae language, Namiae, Ese language, Ese (Managalasi), Ömie language, Ömie Tom Dutton (linguist), Dutton (2010) classifies the Koiarian languages as: *Baraic **Ömie language, Ömie **Barai language, Barai–Managalasi language, Managalasi (incl. Namiae language, Namiae) *Koiaric **Mountain Koiari language, Mountain Koiari **Koitabu language, Koita – Grass Koiari language, Grass Koiari Proto-language Pronouns Usher (2020) reconstructs the pronouns as: : Vocabula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 north of Australia. It has Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest list of island countries, island country, with an area of . The nation was split in the 1880s between German New Guinea in the North and the Territory of Papua, British Territory of Papua in the South, the latter of which was ceded to Australia in 1902. All of present-day Papua New Guinea came under Australian control following World War I, with the legally distinct Territory of New Guinea being established out of the former German colony as a League of Nations mandate. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |