Wogamush River

	Wogamush River The Wogamush River (or Wogamus River) is a river in northern Papua New Guinea. Wogamush Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2012-01-17; database downloaded 2015-06-22 It is located in East Sepik Province (East Sepik). The Wogamus languages are spoken along the banks of the river. See also List of rivers of Papua New Guinea Wogamus languages 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 , respective ... References Rivers of Papua New Guinea {{PapuaNewGuinea-river-stub ... [...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 433,481 people (2010 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. History Cherubim Dambui was appointed as East Sepik's first premier Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier. A premier will normally be a head of governm ... by 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia). Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest island country, with an area of . At the national level, after being ruled by three external powers since 1884, including nearly 60 years of Australian administration starting during World War I, Papua New Guinea established its sovereignty in 1975. It became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1975 with Elizabeth II as its queen. It also became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations in its own right. There are 839 known languages of Papua New Guinea, on ... [...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 -''um'' ‘three’ and Chenapian -''mu'' ‘three’ used as examples. : Vocabulary comparison The following basic vocabulary words are from the Trans-New Guinea database. The Wogamusin data is from Foley (2005) and Laycock (1968), Laycock, Donald C. 1968. Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea. ''Oceanic Linguistics ''Oceanic Linguistics'' is a biannual peer-revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Rivers Of Papua New Guinea This is a list of rivers of Papua New Guinea. In alphabetical order New Britain * Aemoi River Apmi River Balima River (Papua New Guinea) * Johanna River (New Britain) * Warangoi River New Ireland * Aparam River * Lossuk River * Lumis River Madang Province The following are rivers in Madang Province for which various Madang language subgroups are named after. See also * List of rivers of Western New Guinea * List of rivers of Indonesia * Geography of Papua New Guinea References External links * * * {{Oceania topic, List of rivers of Rivers Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ... ... [...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 An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pair. ..., , word-initially. is velar, , 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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]