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West Bird's Head Languages
West Bird's Head languages are a small family of poorly documented Papuan languages spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. The West Bird's Head (WBH) family is a well-defined family of six languages spoken at the western end of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea and the eastern part of the island of Salawati opposite the Bird's Head's western shore. Based on pronominal evidence, they are perhaps related to the North Halmahera languages of North Maluku. Language contact West Bird's Head languages have been heavily influenced by Austronesian languages. Austronesian influence is evident in SVO word order (as opposed to SOV word order in most other Papuan language families), pronouns, numerals, and other typological features. Languages * Seget–Moi ( Sele Strait): ** Seget **Moi Moi or MOI may refer to: People * Moi (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Moisés Delgado (born 1994), Spanish footballer commonly known as simply Moi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Papua (province)
West Papua ( id, Papua Barat), formerly Irian Jaya Barat (West Irian), is a province of Indonesia. It covers the two western peninsulas of the island of New Guinea, the eastern half of the Bird's Head Peninsula (or Doberai Peninsula) and the Bomberai Peninsula, along with nearby smaller islands. The province is bordered to the north by the Pacific Ocean, to the west by the Halmahera Sea and the Ceram Sea, to the south by the Banda Sea, and to the east by the province of Central Papua and the Cenderawasih Bay. Manokwari is the province's capital and largest city. West Papua is the second-least populous province in Indonesia (after South Papua). It had a population of 1,134,068 at the 2020 Census, and the official estimate for mid 2021 was 1,156,840. However the total area and population will be reduced by the Parliamentary decision on 17 November 2022 to create a 38th province of Indonesia, comprising Sorong city and the regencies of Sorong, South Sorong, Raja Ampat, Maybrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seget Language
Seget is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. It is spoken southwest of Sorong, in Walian, Sailolof, Segum, and Seget villages in Sorong Regency, West Papua. Walian and Sailolof are villages (''kampung'') located in Salawati. Seget and Segun are currently districts in Sorong Regency Sorong Regency ( id, Kabupaten Sorong) is a regency of Southwest Papua province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 13,075.28 km2, and had a population of 70,619 at the 2010 Census, and 118,679 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, .... References Languages of western New Guinea West Bird's Head languages {{Papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bird's Head Languages
West Bird's Head languages are a small family of poorly documented Papuan languages spoken on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. The West Bird's Head (WBH) family is a well-defined family of six languages spoken at the western end of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea and the eastern part of the island of Salawati opposite the Bird's Head's western shore. Based on pronominal evidence, they are perhaps related to the North Halmahera languages of North Maluku. Language contact West Bird's Head languages have been heavily influenced by Austronesian languages. Austronesian influence is evident in SVO word order (as opposed to SOV word order in most other Papuan language families), pronouns, numerals, and other typological features. Languages * Seget–Moi ( Sele Strait): ** Seget **Moi Moi or MOI may refer to: People * Moi (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Moisés Delgado (born 1994), Spanish footballer commonly known as simply Moi * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuwani Language
Kuwani is a poorly attested Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: ''Kepala Burung'', nl, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai''), is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces o ... of New Guinea. It is attested only from a single word list, and even its exact location is unknown. Comparison Smits and Voorhoeve (1998) assumed it to be equivalent to Kalabra, but there are significant lexical differences.Smits, Leo and C.L. Voorhoeve. 1998. The J. C. Anceaux collection of wordlists of Irian Jaya languages B: Non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages (Part II) Leiden/Jakarta: DSALCUL/IRIS. Some lexical differences between Kuwani and Kalabra are given below. : References Languages of western New Guinea West Bird's Head languages {{Papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moraid Language
Moraid is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. It is spoken in Moraid District, Tambrauw Regency Tambrauw Regency is a regency of Southwest Papua Province, Indonesia. Geography Tambrauw Regency is a new regency located in Bird's head region of Papua Island. Geographically, Tambrauw. Regency is located at 132035' East Longitude (East Longitude ..., West Papua. References Languages of western New Guinea West Bird's Head languages {{Papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalabra Language
Kalabra (Beraur) is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. It is closest to Tehit. Kalabra is spoken in Beraur District, Sorong Regency Sorong Regency ( id, Kabupaten Sorong) is a regency of Southwest Papua province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 13,075.28 km2, and had a population of 70,619 at the 2010 Census, and 118,679 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, ..., West Papua. References Languages of western New Guinea West Bird's Head languages {{Papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehit Language
Tehit is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. Other spellings are ''Tahit, Tehid,'' and other names ''Kaibus, Teminabuan''. Dialects are Tehit Jit, Mbol Fle, Saifi, Imyan, Sfa Riere, Fkar, Sawiat Salmeit. Subdivisions Subgroups Major Tehit ethnic subgroups: Locations of some Tehit subgroups: *Tehit Mlafle and Tehit Mlakya, in Teminabuan District: Kaibus, Werisar, Keyen, Boldon, Seribau, Srer, and Sria villages. *Tehit Konda, in Konda District: Konda, Mnaelek, and Mbariat villages. *Tehit Nakya, in Saifi District: Malaswat, Manggroholo, Sira, Kwowok, Komanggaret, Sayal, Kayabo, Botaen, Sisir, and Knaya villages. *Tehit Imian, in Seremuk District: Gamaro, Tofot, Haha, Woloin, and Kakas villages. *Tehit Nasfa, in Sawiyat District: Wenslolo, Wensnahan, Wensi villages. Clans Tehit clans: Morphology Tehit has four grammatical gender In linguistics, grammatical gender system is a specific form of noun class system, where nouns are assigned with gender c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moi Language
Moi is a West Papuan languages, West Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea. Phonology Consonants [ʔ] is in free variation with /k/ in word-final position. Vowels /i, u/ can also be heard as [ɪ, ʊ]. References Languages of western New Guinea West Bird's Head languages {{Papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sele Strait , ...
Sele may refer to: Places Africa * Sele, Burkina Faso, a village in the Ouéleni Department of Burkina Fase. * Sele, Ethiopia, a town in Agbe municipality Asia * Sele, Turkey, a Turkish village in Kailar in Ottoman times * Şələ, Azerbaijan * Seleucia (Susiana), an ancient city now in Iran formerly called ''Sele'' Europe * Sele Mill, a former watermill in Hertfordshire, England * Sele, West Sussex, an English hamlet *Sele Priory, a Benedictine monastery in modern-day Upper Beeding, West Sussex *Zell, Carinthia, the Slovene name * Sele, Norway, two villages with this name in Øygarden, Norway ;River: Sele (river), in southwestern Italy People with the surname *Aaron Sele, American baseball player *Baron Saye and Sele Baron Saye and Sele is a title in the Peerage of England held by the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family. The title dates to 1447 but it was recreated in 1603. Confusion over the details of the 15th-century title has led to conflicting order for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Papuan Languages
The West Papuan languages are a proposed language family of about two dozen non-Austronesian languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai Peninsula) of far western New Guinea, the island of Halmahera and its vicinity, spoken by about 220,000 people in all. It is not established if they constitute a proper linguistic family or an areal network of genetically unrelated families. The best known "West Papuan" language is Ternate (50,000 native speakers) of the island of the same name, which is a regional lingua franca and which, along with neighboring Tidore, were the languages of the rival medieval Ternate and Tidore sultanates, famous for their role in the spice trade. Languages ;West Papuan * North Halmahera (Halmahera – West Makian) **Core North Halmahera ** ''West Makian'' *'' Amberbaken (Mpur)'' * Yawa (Yapen) *West–Central Bird's Head ** West Bird's Head ** ''Abun'' **'' Maybrat (Central Bird's Head)'' *East Bird's Head ** ''Burmeso'' ** Hatam–Mans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SOV Word Order
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SOV may refer to: * SOV, Service Operations Vessel * SOV, a former ticker symbol for Sovereign Bank * SOV, a legal cryptocurrency created by the Sovereign Currency Act of 2018 of the Republic of the Marshall Islands * SOV, the National Rail station code for Southend Victoria railway station, Southend-on-Sea, England * SO Voiron, a French rugby union club * Schedule of values * Single-occupancy vehicle * Subject–object–verb, used in linguistic typology * Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg, an Austrian orchestra * Share of voice * Sorin Ovidiu Vântu, a Romanian business man * Store of value A store of value is any commodity or asset that would normally retain purchasing power into the future and is the function of the asset that can be saved, retrieved and exchanged at a later time, and be predictably useful when retrieved. The most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
