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Upper Sepik Languages
The Upper Sepik languages are a group of ten to a dozen languages generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Languages The Upper Sepik languages are: NewGuineaWorld *Abau–Iwam ** Abau ** *Yellow and Wanibe Rivers **Amal–Kalou *** Amal *** Kalou ** |
Sandaun Province
Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea (also known as home of the sunset). It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the area surrounding the town of Aitape was hit by an enormous 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake, tsunami caused by a Magnitude 7.0 earthquake which killed over 2,000 people. The five villages along the west coast of Vanimo towards the International Border are namely; Lido, Waromo, Yako, Musu and Wutung. It borders Indonesia. Name Sandaun is a Tok Pisin word derived from English "sun down," since the province is located in the west of the country, where the sun sets. The province was formerly named West Sepik Province, for the Sepik, Sepik River that flows through the province and forms part of the province's southern border. Physical Geography The Sandaun Province has beaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalou Language
Kalou, or ''Yawa'', is a Papuan language 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 closely related to Amal. References Yellow–Wanibe languages Languages of Sandaun Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chenapian Language
Chenapian (Chenap) is a Papuan language of East Sepik 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 .... It is spoken in Chepanian (Sanapian) village (), Ambunti Rural LLG. Pronouns Chenapian pronouns: : References Wogamus languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wogamusin Language
Wogamusin is a Papuan language found in four villages in the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.Ethnologue. Phonology In non-final positions, , , and are , , and , respectively. appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by it is rounded: . Between vowels, and lenite to the fricatives and , respectively. is realized as an affricate, , word-initially. is velar Velar may refer to: * Velar consonant Velar consonants are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum"). Since the velar region ..., , after and . Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased. Phonotactics The consonant only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepik Iwam Language
Sepik Iwam, or Yawenian, is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is the lexical basis of the Hauna trade pidgin. It is spoken in villages such as Iniok () in Tunap/Hunstein Rural LLG of East Sepik Province. Phonology Pronouns Sepik Iwam pronouns: : Grammar Sepik Iwam subject agreement suffixes are: : The structure of this subject agreement paradigm can be traced back to Proto-Sepik, although the morphemes themselves do not seem to be directly related to the reconstructed Proto-Sepik forms. (See also '' Sepik languages#Gender''.) Like May River Iwam, Sepik Iwam has periodic tense Periodic tense is a subtype of the grammatical category of tense, which encodes that the event expressed by the verb occurs within a particular period of the day (such as 'at night', 'in the morning' etc.) or of the year ('in winter', 'in summer' ..., for instance the matutinal ''-iyakwok''.Foley (2018:284) References Further reading * {{Languages of Papua New Guinea Iwam languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wogamus Languages
The Wogamus languages are a pair of closely related languages, Wogamusin and Chenapian. They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross and William A. Foley (2018) place them in the Upper Sepik branch of that family. The Wogamus languages are spoken along the banks of the Wogamush River and Sepik River in western East Sepik Province, just to the east of the Iwam languages. Noun classes Wogamus languages have noun classes reminiscent of those found in Bantu languages. Noun classes in Wogamusin and Chenapian are listed below, with Wogamusin - 'three' and Chenapian - 'three' used as examples. :{, ! Class no. !! Semantic category !! Wogamusin prefix !! Chenapian prefix !! Wogamusin example !! Chenapian example , - ! 1 , humans , , , , , , , , , - ! 2 , higher animals: dogs, pigs, etc. , , , , , , , , , - ! 3 , plants, trees, vines, etc. , , , , , , , , , - ! 4 , no specific pattern , , , , , , , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow River Languages
The Yellow River languages are a small family of clearly related languages, : Namia (Namie), Ak, and Awun. They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Namia is the most divergent Yellow River language. Distribution They are spoken along the Yellow River (a tributary of the Sepik) in a mountainous area of central Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea (also known as home of the sunset). It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population ..., located to the north of the Upper Sepik basin. They are located directly to the southwest of the Ram languages, another Sepik group. Pronouns The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto–Yellow River are:Ross (2005) : References * {{Sepik languages Yellow–Wanibe languages Languages of Sandaun Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Languages
The Ram languages are a small group of 3 languages spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. They are spoken directly to the northeast of the Yellow River languages and directly to the south of the Wapei languages, both of which are also Sepik groups. ''Ram'' is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group. The languages are, * Awtuw *Karawa–Pouye ** Karawa ** Pouye (Bouye) They are classified among the Sepik languages of northern 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 .... Awtuw is the best documented Ram language. Pronouns The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Ram are: : Vocabulary comparison The following basic vocabulary words are from Laycock (1968) and Foley (2005), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database. The words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amal Language
Amal is a language spoken along the border of Sandaun Province and East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, along the Wagana River near the confluence with Wanibe Creek. Foley (2018) classifies Amal as a primary branch of the Sepik languages, though it is quite close to Kalou. Pronouns Pronouns are: : Cognates Amal cognates with Sepik languages The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a language family, family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik River, Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than prese ... are: *''tal'' ‘woman’ *''yan'' ‘child’ *''lal'' ‘tongue’ < proto-Sepik *ta(w)r *''mi'' ‘breast’ < proto-Sepik *muk *''waplo'' ‘liver’ *''nip'' ‘blood’ *''yen'' ‘egg’ *''ak'' ‘house’ Foley (2018) notes that there appears to be somewhat more lexical similarities between Amal and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Sepik Province
East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim Dambui was appointed as East Sepik's first premier by Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Michael Somare upon the creation of the provincial government in 1976. Dambui remained interim premier until 1979, when he became East Sepik's permanent premier with a full term. He remained in office until 1983. Geography Wewak, the provincial capital, is located on the coast of East Sepik. There are a scattering of islands off shore, and coastal ranges dominate the landscape just inland of the coast. The remainder of the province's geography is dominated by the Sepik River, which is one of the largest rivers in the world in terms of water flow and is known for flooding—the river's level can alter by as much as five metres in the cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwam Languages
The Iwam languages are a small family of two clearly related languages, May River Iwam and Sepik Iwam are generally classified among the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Ross places them in an Upper Sepik branch of that family. The Iwam languages are spoken at the extreme western end of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea along the bank of the Upper Sepik River The Sepik () is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the third largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly River, Fly and Mamberamo River, Mamberamo. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea (PNG) provi ..., and are situated just to the west of the Left May languages. Footnotes References {{Sepik languages Upper Sepik languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |