The Schouten languages are a linkage of Austronesian languages in northern

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 ...

. They are in contact with various

North Papuan languages The Northwest Papuan languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages. Many of the constituent branches of Northwest Papuan were first proposed to be related by H.K.J. Cowan in the 1950s. Voorhoeve (1971) connected the Border and To ...

, particularly the Skou and some Torricelli languages. They are named after the

Schouten Islands The Schouten Islands ( id, Kepulauan Biak, also Biak Islands or Geelvink Islands) are an island group of Papua province, eastern Indonesia in the Cenderawasih Bay (or Geelvink Bay) 50 km off the north-western coast of the island of New ...

of Papua New Guinea.

Languages

*Siau family: Arop-Sissano, Sera,

Sissano Sissano is an Austronesian language spoken by at most a few hundred people around Sissano in West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. 4,800 speakers were reported in 1990, but the 1998 tsunami The 1998 Papua New Guinea ea ...

, Ulau-Suain, Tumleo, Yakamul (Kap, Ali) *Kairiru linkage: Kaiep, Kairiru, Terebu *Manam linkage: Biem, Kis, Manam, Medebur, Sepa,

Wogeo Wogeo (Vokeo) is an Austronesian language of northeast New Guinea. It is spoken on Koil and Vokeo islands of Wewak Islands Rural LLG Wewak Islands Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Various ...

''Ethnologue'' adds Malol to Siau. The Siau family is spoken in

Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capita ...

. The Kairiru linkage is spoken in

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 ...

. The Manam linkage is spoken in

Madang Province Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capital is the town of Madang. D ...

and

Wewak Islands Rural LLG Wewak Islands Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Various Schouten languages are spoken in this LLG. Wards *01. Biem 1 (Biem language speakers) *02. Biem 2 (Biem language speakers) *03. Kadowar ( ...

References

External links

Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...

includes written notes on Manam from

Robert Blust Robert A. Blust (; ; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Bl ...

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