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Doso Language
Doso is a language of New Guinea. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct Turumsa language, its only clear relative. It is spoken near Kamula Kamula (Kamira, Wawoi) is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified. Demographics ... but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area. Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : References Doso–Turumsa languages {{papuan-lang-stub ...
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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, one of ...
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Papuan Gulf Languages
The Papuan Gulf languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages spoken inland from the large gulf that defines the shape of southern Papua New Guinea. Languages *Kikorian (Kikori River) ** Kutubuan ** Turama–Kikorian *Strickland ( Strickland and Soari River) ** East Strickland ** Doso–Turumsa * Gogodala–Suki (Suki–Aramia River) *Tua River Tua () is a river in northeastern Portugal, flowing by the border of Vila Real District and Bragança District. It is a tributary of the Douro River. The biggest and most important city it flows through is Mirandela. The Tua line The Tua ... ** Teberan **'' Wiru'' **'' Pawaia'' Lexical comparison The lexical data below is from the Trans-New Guinea database and Usher (2020), unless noted otherwise. Neighboring languages not traditionally classified within Papuan Gulf are also included for comparison. References Further reading *Franklin, K. editor. ''The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and ad ...
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Doso–Turumsa Languages
The Doso–Turumsa languages are a pair of closely related languages spoken along the Soari River of New Guinea, namely Doso and Turumsa, that appear to be closest to the East Strickland languages. Pronouns The pronouns correspond very closely. They are: : See also *Dibiyaso language Dibiyaso Bainapi is a Papuan language of Western Province, Papua New Guinea (Bamustu, Makapa, and Pikiwa villages). Classification It is sometimes classified with the Bosavi languages. Søren Wichmann (2013)Wichmann, Søren. 2013A classificatio ... References External links * Timothy Usher, New Guinea WorldSoari River Strickland–Soari languages Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea) {{papuan-lang-stub ...
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New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of Motu, from the Austronesian l ...: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Mainland Australia, Australia by the wide Torres Strait, though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Papua (province), Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua, South Papua, Southwest Papua, and West Papua (province), West ...
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Turumsa Language
Turumsa is a possibly extinct Papuan language of Makapa village () in Gogodala Rural LLG, Middle Fly District, 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 .... It has been classified as a Bosavi language, and is 19% lexically similar with Dibiyaso, but this appears to be due to loans. It has a greater (61%) lexical similarity with Doso, its only clear relative. There were only five elderly speakers found in 2002. Today, most people in Makapa village speak Dibiyaso. References ">qm">Endangered languages listing: TURUMSA [tqm/nowiki> Doso–Turumsa languages Extinct languages of Oceania Endangered Papuan languages {{papuan-lang-stub ...
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Glottolog
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany). Its main curators include Harald Hammarström and Martin Haspelmath. Overview Sebastian Nordhoff and Harald Hammarström created the Glottolog/Langdoc project in 2011. The creation of ''Glottolog'' was partly motivated by the lack of a comprehensive language bibliography, especially in ''Ethnologue''. Glottolog provides a catalogue of the world's languages and language families and a bibliography on the world's less-spoken languages. It differs from the similar catalogue '' Ethnologue'' in several respects: * It tries to accept only those languages that the editors have been able to confirm both exist and are distinct. Varieties that have not been confirmed, but are inherited from anothe ...
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Kamula Language
Kamula (Kamira, Wawoi) is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified. Demographics Kamula is spoken in two widely separated areas, including in Kamiyami village of the Wawoi Falls area in Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Routamaa (1994: 7) estimates that there are about 800 speakers of Kamula located in 3 villages in Western Province, with no dialectal differences reported. This is because the Kamula had originally lived in camps near Samokopa in the northern area, but a group had split off and moved to Wasapea in the south only around 50 years ago. *''Kesiki'', at Wawoi Falls in Bamu Rural LLG (main village) () *''Samokopa'' in Bamu Rural LLG (one day's walk from Kesiki) () *''Wasapea'' (''Kamiyami''Routamaa, Iska and Judy Routamaa. 1996. Dialect survey report of the Kamula language, Western provin ...
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