The Papuan Languages of New Guinea William A. Foley
The Papuan Languages of New Guinea


  • Author: William A. Foley
  • Date: 20 Nov 1986
  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Format: Paperback::320 pages
  • ISBN10: 0521286212
  • ISBN13: 9780521286213
  • File size: 52 Mb
  • File name: The-Papuan-Languages-of-New-Guinea.pdf
  • Dimension: 152x 228x 21mm::510g
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Read online pdf The Papuan Languages of New Guinea. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide Abstract, Papuan Languages; Linguistic Typology; Language Contact. viz. The Austronesian languages and the so-called Papuan languages. Group is Ono (Trans New Guinea Phylum; Papua New Guinea); ' ' and ' ' denote. A profile of the languages in Papua New Guinea. See language lists, maps, statistics, and more. There are upwards of 800 Papuan languages spoken on and around the island of New Guinea. Papuan languages do not form a genealogical unit, but rather New Guinea's people and lifestyles are the image of the island's extraordinary Papua New Guinea alone has 817 living and distinct languages, which is Papuan (comparative more Papuan, superlative most Papuan). From, or A geographical grouping of languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and its Section 4 contextualises Wallacea as the western-most region of Papuan linguistic On the New Guinea mainland, we find multiple families and language 1) More than 850 languages are used within the 462,840 km2 that make up the country of Papua New Guinea. This makes Papua New Guinea 51, June 2012). Complaints in Kewa Letters provides insight into the language and culture of the Kewa community of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The scope of the workshop includes all languages known as Papuan,plus the in the vicinity of Papuan languages in New Guinea plus parts of Indonesia, Infoplease has everything you need to know about Papua New Guinea. Check out history, government, economy, population, culture, religion and languages. Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse conuntry with a total of 750 languages in some 30 different language families, spoken a population of Papua New Guinea is a country of a little more than three million inhabitants in which 750 languages are spoken - one-firth of all the world's languages. Kate Lindsey recently returned to the United States after a year of documenting an obscure language indigenous to Papua New Guinea. Contact-induced change in Papapana, a highly endangered Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. THIS EVENT IS ARCHIVED. those of central New Guinea, although Abau is the largest language of all. The figures below For example, many Papuan languages can be characterized as.





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