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Northwest 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 Tor families. Using only pronouns as a diagnostic, Malcolm Ross linked most of the western (Foja Range) branch of the family, which is now fairly secure. The current form of the proposal was worked out by Timothy Usher under the name "North(west) New Guinea" (not to be confused with the proposed North New Guinea branch of the Austronesian language family). It is not yet certain, however, that the similarities in vocabulary between Foja Range and the other constituent families are due to inheritance rather than borrowing. Languages * Fas * Sentani * Border (Upper Tami) * Sko * Foja Range ** Nimboran ** Kwerbic **'' Mawes'' ** Orya–Tor The western branch, Foja Range, is equivalent to Ross's Tor–Kwerba family with the addition of Nimbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapori Language
Kapori (Kapauri) is a Papuan language of Pagai village in Airu District, Jayapura Regency Jayapura Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in Papua Province of Indonesia. It is situated to the west of but does not include the city of Jayapura. Previously covering most of the north-east portion of Papua province, it was reduced ..., Papua, Indonesia. Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : Further reading *Rumaropen, Benny. 2006. ''Survey Report on the Kapauri Language of Papua, Indonesia''. Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia. References Languages of western New Guinea Kapauri–Sause languages Language isolates of New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaure Language
Kaure is a Papuan language of West Papua. It is spoken in the villages of Lereh, Harna, Wes, Masta, and Aurina. Narau is either a dialect or a closely related language. It is known from a short word list in Giël (1959). Texts include Auri et al. (1991).Auri, Piter, Peter R. Dommel and Markus Pokoko. 1991. ''Kaureki a Opoksel (Percakapan-percakapan Dalam Bahasa Kaure: Kaure Conversations)''. Jayapura: University of Cenderawasih and Summer Institute of Linguistics. Phonology Consonants The Kaure consonants are: Vowels The Kaure vowels are: Tone Like the Lakes Plain languages, Kaure is a tonal language. There are two tones, namely high and low. Monosyllabic minimal pairs showing phonemic tone contrast include: *''tái'' ‘footprint’, ''tài'' ‘sago’ *''pí'' ‘boil’, ''pì'' ‘pig’ *''hín'' ‘limbum wood’, ''hìn'' ‘blood’ *''héik'' ‘flower’, ''hèik'' ‘snake’ In multisyllabic words, only one stressed syllable carries full tone contrasts, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosare Language
Kosadle (Kosare) is a Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ... of West Papua. References *Wambaliau, Theresia. 2006. ''Survey Report on the Kosare Language in Papua, Indonesia''. Unpublished manuscript. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia. (in Indonesian) External linksKosare New Guinea World. Kaure–Kosare languages Languages of western New Guinea Language isolates of New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawa River Languages
Nawa may refer to: * Nawa, Rajasthan, a city and Tehsil in Nagaur district in the Indian State of Rajasthan * Nawa District, a district in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan * Nawa, Afghanistan, a town in the central part of Nawa District, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan * Nawa Region, a region in Bas-Sassandra District of Ivory Coast * Nawa, Tottori, a town in Saihaku District, Tottori, Japan * Nawa, Syria, a city in Daraa Governorate, Syria * Nawa, Salamiyah, a village in the Hama Governorate, Syria * Na'wah (Upper Yafa), a sheikhdom and dependency of Upper Yafa * Nawa-I-Barakzayi, a village in Nawa District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan * Nawa-I-Barakzayi District, a district in Helmand Province, Afghanistan * NAWA, abbreviation of Northern Africa and Western Asia * National Association of Women Artists, a US artist organisation See also * Amphoe Na Wa, a district in Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand * Maqam Nawah, a mode in the Arabic Maqam Arabic maqam ( ar, مقام ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapauri Language
Kapori (Kapauri) is a Papuan language of Pagai village in Airu District, Jayapura Regency Jayapura Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in Papua Province of Indonesia. It is situated to the west of but does not include the city of Jayapura. Previously covering most of the north-east portion of Papua province, it was reduce ..., Papua, Indonesia. Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Voorhoeve (1975), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : Further reading *Rumaropen, Benny. 2006. ''Survey Report on the Kapauri Language of Papua, Indonesia''. Unpublished ms. Jayapura: SIL Indonesia. References Languages of western New Guinea Kapauri–Sause languages Language isolates of New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grime River Languages
The Nimboran languages are a small family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Grime River watershed, that had been part of Stephen Wurm's Trans–New Guinea proposal. However, when proto-Nimboran pronouns are reconstructed ''(*genam'' "I" and ''kom'' or ''komot'' "thou"), they have little resemblance to the proto-TNG pronouns ''*na'' and ''*ga.'' Usher places them in a North Papuan stock that resembles Cowan's proposal. Foley (2018) classifies the Nimboran languages separately as an independent language family. Classification The languages are: *Nimboran (Grime River) **East *** Mekwei (Moi) ***Gresi–Kemtuik **** Kemtuik **** Gresi **West *** Mlap (Kuangsu) *** Namblong (Nimboran) Proto-language Pronouns The pronouns Ross (2005) reconstructs for proto-Nimboran are, : Below are pronouns in the Nimboran languages as given by Foley (2018): : As in Kaure, pronouns are not specified for number in the Nimboran language Nimboran (Nambrong) is a Papuan language of Nimboran D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massep Language
Massep (Masep, Potafa, Wotaf) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by fewer than 50 people in the single village of Masep in West Pantai District, Sarmi Regency, Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, however, language use is vigorous. It is surrounded by the Kwerba languages Airoran and Samarokena. Classification Clouse, Donohue, and Ma (2002) conclude that it definitely is not a Kwerba language, as it had been classified by Wurm (1975). They did not notice connections to any other language family. However, Usher (2018) classifies it as Greater Kwerbic. ''Ethnologue'', ''Glottolog'', and Foley (2018) list it as a language isolate, but it has not been included in wider surveys, such as Ross (2005). The pronouns are not dissimilar from those of Trans–New Guinea languages Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands ‒ corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tor-Kwerba 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. * 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, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender catego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
