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Foja (other)
Foja may refer to: *Foja Mountains, Indonesia *Foja Range languages The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea. Languages All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm's 1975 ..., of New Guinea See also * Fauji (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foja Mountains
The Foja Mountains (Foja Range, Foya Mountains) () are located just north of the Mamberamo river basin in Papua, Indonesia. The mountains rise to , and have 3,000 square kilometers of old growth tropical rainforest in the interior part of the range. The Foja forest tract covers 9,712 square kilometers and is the largest tropical forest without roads in the Asia Pacific region. The Foja Range languages are spoken within the mountain range and nearby areas. Geography The Foja Mountains are cooler than the lowlands below because of their elevation, but January and July temperatures still average . The rainy season is from December to March, but the area can receive rain throughout the year. In a typical year, the range receives more than of precipitation. Relative humidity ranges from 73 to 87%. The nearest villages include Sragafareh, Jomen, Beggensabah, Aer Mati, and Dabra. History The mountains have no record of visitors prior to 1979 (Stattersfield et al. 1998). Much of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foja Range Languages
The Foja Range languages, or Tor–Kwerba in more limited scope, are a family of about two dozen Papuan languages. They are named after the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea. Languages All the languages had been part of Stephen Wurm's 1975 Trans–New Guinea proposal, but he did not recognize them as a unit, retaining Kwerba within Capell's 1962 Dani–Kwerba proposal, for example. Foley (2018) classifies the Orya–Tor and Kwerbic languages together, as Tor–Kwerba. Usher (2020) adds Nimboran and Mawes, naming the expanded family Foja Range, after the Foja mountain range that passes through all four branches of the family. *Foja Range ** Orya–Tor ** Nimboran **'' Mawes'' ** West Foja Range (Greater Kwerbic) *** Isirawa *** Masep *** Kapauri–Sause ***Apauwar–Kwerba (Kwerbic) **** Apauwar Coast **** Kwerba Typological overview Even though grammatical gender In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |