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St George Linkage
The St. George linkage links the Northwest Solomonic languages, North-West Solomonic and New ireland languages, New Ireland languages under the Meso-Melanesian languages. Members of the St George linkage are Niwer Mil language, Warwar Feni, Fanamaket, Sursurunga language, Sursurunga, Konomala language, Konomala, Patpatar language, Patpatar, Tolai language, Tolai, Kandas language, Kandas, Ramoaaina language, Ramoaina, Lungalunga language, Lungalunga, Label language, Label, Bilur language, Bilur, and Siar-Lak language, Siar. References St George linkage, Meso-Melanesian languages {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...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] |
Konomala Language
Konomala is an Oceanic language The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ... spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. Much of the population has shifted to Siar-Lak. References Languages of New Ireland Province St George linkage {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siar-Lak Language
Siar, also known as Lak, Lamassa, or Likkilikki, is an Austronesian language spoken in New Ireland Province in the southern island point 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 .... Lak is in the Patpatar-Tolai sub-group, which then falls under the New Ireland-Tolai group in the Western Oceanic language, a sub-group within the Austronesian family. The Siar people keep themselves sustained and nourished by fishing and gardening. The native people call their language , which means 'our language'. Phonology Siar-Lak contains fifteen consonants, and five vowels, which does not include the mid-high vowel pronunciations of and . The vowel can be thought to be pronounced in between the high vowel and the mid vowel , as well as being in between the hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilur Language
Bilur, also ambiguously known as Minigir, is an Oceanic language of the 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 not closely related to other languages, and its classification is uncertain. References Languages of East New Britain Province St George linkage {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Label Language
Label is a small Oceanic language The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ... spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. References Languages of New Ireland Province St George linkage {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lungalunga Language
Lungalunga (Lunga Lunga), frequently though ambiguously called Minigir, is spoken by a small number of the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. It is often referred to in the linguistics literature as the Tolai "dialect" with an . Classification Lungalunga belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. The most immediate subgroup is the Patpatar–Tolai group of languages which also includes Kuanua (also spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula) and Patpatar (spoken on New Ireland). A "Tolai-Nakanai trade language" reported in the literature was apparently not a pidgin as assumed, but Minigir (Lungalunga) with perhaps some Meramera or Nakanai mixed in.Tom Dutton, "Other pidgins in Papua New Guinea", in Wurm et al. (1996) ''Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas,'' vol 1:216, fn 1 Geographic distribution Lungalunga is spoken on Ataliklikun Bay, in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramoaaina Language
Ramoaaina (Ramuaina) is an Oceanic language spoken on the Duke of York Islands off eastern New Ireland. Phonology Phoneme inventory of the Ramoaaina language: /s/ is used, but mainly in loanwords. References External links * Materials on Ramoaaina are included in the open access Arthur Capell Arthur Capell (28 March 1902 – 10 August 1986) was an Australian linguist, who made major contributions to the study of Australian languages, Austronesian languages and Papuan languages. Early life Capell was born in Newtown, New South W ... collectionsAC1anAC2 and Malcolm Ross collectionMR1 held by Paradisec Digitised microfilm images from Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU) including Ramoaaina Languages of East New Britain Province St George linkage {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kandas Language
Kandas is an Oceanic language The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ... spoken on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. References Languages of New Ireland Province St George linkage Vulnerable languages {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolai Language
The Tolai language, or Kuanua, is spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. Nomenclature This language is often referred to in the literature as ''Tolai''. However, Tolai is actually the name of the cultural group. The Tolais themselves refer to their language as , which translates as 'the real language'. is apparently a word in Ramoaaina meaning 'the place over there'. Classification Tolai belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. The most immediate subgroup is the Patpatar–Tolai group of languages which also includes Lungalunga (also spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula) and Patpatar (spoken on New Ireland). Characteristics Unlike many languages in Papua New Guinea, Tolai is a healthy language and not in danger of dying out to Tok Pisin, though Tolai has many loanwords from Tok Pisin; e.g. the original has been completely usurped by the Tok Pisin for 'brown', and the Tok Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patpatar Language
Patpatar, or , is an Austronesian language spoken in New Ireland Province in 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 Phonology of the Patpatar language: References Languages of New Ireland Province St George linkage {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sursurunga Language
Sursurunga is an Oceanic language of New Ireland (island), New Ireland. Phonology Consonants * has two allophones: syllable initially and syllable finally. * has two allophones: syllable initially and ~ syllable finally. * has two allophones: syllable initially and ~~ syllable finally. * Voiced stops , , and only occur syllable initially. Plain and prenasalized voiced stops (i.e., , , ) are in free variation word initially. Voiced stops are nasalized word-medially between vowels and after non-nasal consonants. , a "voiced alveolar slightly retroflexed stop" is also heard word medially. * is syllable initially and finally. * is a "voiceless vocoid occurring word finally following a voiced vocoid of the same quality." * is syllable initially and syllable finally. It becomes after a rounded vowel. * is initially and finally. * Semivowels and only occur syllable initially. Vowels Orthography Sursurunga has fifteen consonants and six vowels. is the velar na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, ''Islands of Destiny'', Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 1000 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Bougainville, a part of Papua New Guinea to the west, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Tuvalu to the east, and Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres (11,157 sq mi), and a population of 734,887 according to the official estimates for mid-2023. Its capital and largest city, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands (archipelago), Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
