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Turama–Kikorian Languages
The Turama–Kikorian languages are a family identified by Arthur Capell (1962) and part of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) family in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005). The family is named after the Turama River and Kikori River of southern Papua New Guinea; the alternative name is based more narrowly on the Omati River. Languages The four languages are clearly related, though Rumu is divergent. Ross states that Rumu links the other (Turama) languages to TNG. * Turama–Kikorian family ** '' Rumu (Kairi)'' isolate ** Turama (Omati River) branch: Omati, Ikobi Proto-language Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:Timothy Usher, New Guinea WorldProto–Rumu – Omati River/ref> : Vocabulary comparison Basic vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Franklin (1973), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : Fauna names Below are some turtle names, with additional names in Porome, Kiwaian, and Kutubuan lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omati River
The Omati River is a river in southern Papua New Guinea.Omati Riverin Geonames.org (cc-by) post updated 2012-01-17; database downloaded 2015-06-22 See also *List of rivers of Papua New Guinea *Omati language *Omati River languages Omati, or Mini, is a Papuan language spoken in the Omati River area of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Indepe ... References Rivers of Papua New Guinea {{PapuaNewGuinea-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porome Language
Porome, also known as Kibiri, is a Papuan language of southern Papua New Guinea. Classification Porome was classified as a language isolate by Stephen Wurm. Although Malcolm Ross linked it to the Kiwaian languages, there is no evidence for a connection apart from the pronouns 1sg ''amo'' and 2sg ''do'' (cf. proto-Kiwaian *mo and *oro). Distribution There are over a thousand speakers in ''Babaguina'' (), ''Doibo'' (), ''Ero'' (), ''Paile'', ''Tipeowo'', and ''Wowa'' () villages in West Kikori Rural LLG and East Kikori Rural LLG of Gulf Province, near the Aird Hills and Kikori River The Kikori River is a major river in southern Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea. The river has a total length of and flows southeast into the Gulf of Papua, with its delta at the head of the gulf. The settlement of Kikori lies on the de ... tributaries. Phonology Porome has 9 native consonants. /s/ occurs in loanwords. There are no glottal consonants.Petterson, Robert. 2019. Intere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turama–Kikorian Languages
The Turama–Kikorian languages are a family identified by Arthur Capell (1962) and part of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) family in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005). The family is named after the Turama River and Kikori River of southern Papua New Guinea; the alternative name is based more narrowly on the Omati River. Languages The four languages are clearly related, though Rumu is divergent. Ross states that Rumu links the other (Turama) languages to TNG. * Turama–Kikorian family ** '' Rumu (Kairi)'' isolate ** Turama (Omati River) branch: Omati, Ikobi Proto-language Some lexical reconstructions by Usher (2020) are:Timothy Usher, New Guinea WorldProto–Rumu – Omati River/ref> : Vocabulary comparison Basic vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Franklin (1973), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : Fauna names Below are some turtle names, with additional names in Porome, Kiwaian, and Kutubuan lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fasu Language
Fasu, also known as Namo Me, is one of the Kutubuan languages of New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr .... Varieties Wurm and Hattori (1981) considered its three principal dialects, Fasu, Some and Namumi, to be three languages, which they called the West Kutubuan family. However, ''Glottolog'' and Usher consider Fasu to be a single language. Classification Fasu is not particularly close to the two East Kutubuan languages, though Usher reconfirms a connection. Although Fasu has proto-TNG vocabulary, Malcolm Ross considers its traditional inclusion in TNG to be somewhat questionable. Other researchers agree. Further reading *Loeweke, Eunice and Jean May. 1980. General Grammar of Fasu (Namo me): Lake Kutubu, Southern Highlands Province. In Don Hutchisson (ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foi Language
Foi, also known as Foe or Mubi River, is one of the two East Kutubuan languages of the Trans-New Guinea family spoken along Lake Kutubu and Mubi River, located in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Dialects of Foi are Ifigi, Kafa, Kutubu, Mubi. A Swadesh list for the Foi language was documented by The Rosetta Project in 2010. The estimated number of Foi speakers as of 2015 is between 6,000 and 8,000. Grammar Syntax Foi is a subject–object–verb language, similar to most languages in Papua New Guinea. Foe adopts the usage of focused objects as sentence-initial. In noun phrases, Foi follows the pattern of Noun + Quantifier and Adjective + Noun. Adverbial phrases are marked postpositionally by clitics in Foi. Foi also has a series of evidentials to mark the verbal aspect of seen, unseen, deduced, possibility, and mental deduction. Morphology The subject or focus transitive in a sentence is marked with ''-mo'' as shown in example (1) belo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiwai Language
Kiwai is a Papuan language, or languages, of southern Papua New Guinea. Dialects number 1,300 Kope, 700 Gibaio, 1,700 Urama, 700 Arigibi (together "Northeast Kiwai"), 3,800 Coast, 1,000 Daru, 4,500 Island, 400 Doumori (together "Southern Kiwai"). Wurm and Hattori (1981) classify Arigibi as a separate language. Introduction Kiwai Island is a long/low island located on the Eastern side of the Southern entrance to the delta of the Fly River (Papua). Gender Kiwai is gender free; male and female is shown by specific terms when needed. Alphabet * 17 Letters ** vowels: a, e, i, o, u (diphthongs are combinations of any two vowels, e.g. ai, au, oi, ou, ei, etc.) ** Consonants: k, g, t, s, d, n, r, p, b, m, v, h ** Semivowel: w/u, i/y /j/ Parts of speech Parts of speech are associated with the standard European parts of speech, somewhat inelegantly. The three major parts of sppech are Nominals, Verbs and Particles: Nominals # Nouns, Adjectives, Pronouns (Personal and Relative) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerewo Language
Kerewo is a Papuan language of southern 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 .... Some portions of the Bible were translated into Kerewo. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and JOhn and the Epistles of Ephesians, Philippians and 1 John were translated as "Nouri buka nou'a airoa" and published in the Goaribari dialect of Kerewo in 1941. References Kiwaian languages Languages of Gulf Province {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Turtle
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. The seven existing species of sea turtles are the flatback, green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, Kemp's ridley, and olive ridley sea turtles. All six of the sea turtle species present in US waters (all of those listed above except the flatback) are listed as endangered and/or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The seventh sea turtle species is the flatback, which exists in the waters of Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Sea turtles can be separated into the categories of hard-shelled (cheloniid) and leathery-shelled ( dermochelyid).Wyneken, J. 2001. The Anatomy of Sea Turtles. U.S Department of Commerce NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-470, 1-172 pp. There is only one dermochelyid species which is the leatherback sea turtle. Description For each of the seven types of sea turtles, females and males are the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelochelys Bibroni
The southern New Guinea giant softshell turtle (''Pelochelys bibroni'') is a species of softshell turtle in the family Trionychidae. The species is endemic to the lowlands of southern New Guinea with occasional vagrant individuals sighted off the coast of northern Australia. ''P. bibroni'' is referred to by the Suki people as ''kiya eise'', a reference to its flexible shell. In the Arammba language, it is called ''sokrere'', meaning "earthquake". It is sometimes hunted by local villages for its meat and/or eggs, leading to some cases of chelonitoxism. Habitat ''P. bibroni'' prefers lowland rivers and estuaries, but adjusts well to the saline environments of deltas and large estuaries. Diet The diet of ''P. bibroni'' is primarily carnivorous, consuming mostly fish, crabs, mollusks, and occasionally some vegetation. Its hunting strategy is not overly aggressive, but primarily being an ambush predator, it spends most of its time at the bottom of its chosen river bed, waiting for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carettochelys Insculpta
The pig-nosed turtle (''Carettochelys insculpta''), also known as the pitted-shelled turtle or Fly River turtle, is a species of turtle native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea. It is the only living member of the family Carettochelyidae, which are related to softshell turtles. Systematics ''C. insculpta'' is the only living member of the genus ''Carettochelys'', the subfamily Carettochelyinae, and the family Carettochelyidae, with Carettochelyidae being one of two families in the Trionychia, alongside Trionychidae (softshell turtles). Carettochelyidae has an extensive fossil record extending into the Paleogene and was formerly widespread, with fossils having been found in Asia, North America, Europe, Africa and Australia. Some literature claims two subspecies, but a recent paper rejects this. Description The pig-nosed turtle is unlike any other species of freshwater turtle in its combination of traits. The feet are flippers, resembling those of marine turtles. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elseya Novaeguineae
The Western New Guinea stream turtle or New Guinea snapping turtle (''Elseya novaeguineae'') is a species of freshwater turtle in the Chelidae family. It is found in the Bird's Head Peninsula and the Bomberai Peninsula west of Cenderawasih Bay, and on the island of Waigeo of West Papua, Indonesia.Turtle Taxonomy Working Group hodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., Bour, R. Fritz, U., Georges, A., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P. 2017Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.) In: Rhodin, A.G.J., Iverson, J.B., van Dijk, P.P., Saumure, R.A., Buhlmann, K.A., Pritchard, P.C.H., and Mittermeier, R.A. (Eds.). ''Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group''. Chelonian Research Monographs 7:1–292. . Taxonomy This species was recently moved from ''Elseya'' to ''Myuchelys'' by Georges and Thomson (2010);Georges, A. & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emydura Subglobosa
''Emydura'', the Australian short-necked turtles, are a genus of turtles in the family Chelidae. It was paraphyletic with ''Elseya''. Consequently, it was split into two genera ''Myuchelys'' and ''Elseya'' by Thomson & Georges, 2009.Thomson, S. & Georges, A. (2009) ''Myuchelys'' gen. nov. —a new genus for ''Elseya latisternum'' and related forms of Australian freshwater turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) Zootaxa 2053: 32–42. They can grow quite large, 30 cm or more is not unusual and have a life span of around 20–30 years. They generally do not hibernate as their warmer climate lets them remain active all year round; they also spend more time in the water than other varieties. They are considered omnivore but rely on a constant supply of meat to remain healthy, feeding on basically anything that will fit into their mouth. They are characterised by a white strip starting at their nose and leading down their neck, as well as a more rigged shell. In Australia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
