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Bahinemo Languages
The Bahinemo languages are a small language family, family of closely related languages of northern Papua New Guinea. The languages are: * Bitara language, Bitara (Berinomo), Bahinemo language, Bahinemo (Gahom), Nigilu language, Nigilu, Wagu language, Wagu * Mari Papuan language, Mari, Bisis language, Bisis, Kapriman language, Kapriman (Sare) – Watakataui language, Watakataui, Sumariup language, Sumariup. They are classified among the Sepik Hill languages of the Sepik languages, Sepik family. References * Bahinemo languages, Sepik Hill languages {{PapuaNewGuinea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepik River
The Sepik () is the longest river on the island of New Guinea, and the third largest in Oceania by discharge volume after the Fly River, Fly and Mamberamo River, Mamberamo. The majority of the river flows through the Papua New Guinea (PNG) provinces of Sandaun (formerly West Sepik) and East Sepik, with a small section flowing through the Indonesian province of Papua (Indonesian province), Papua. The Sepik has a large catchment area, and landforms that include swamplands, tropical rainforests and mountains. Biologically, the river system is often said to be possibly the largest uncontaminated freshwater wetland system in the Asia-Pacific region. But, in fact, numerous fish and plant species have been introduced into the Sepik since the mid-20th century. Name In 1884, Germany asserted control over the northeast quadrant of the island of New Guinea, which became part of the German colonial empire. The colony was initially managed by the Deutsche Neuguinea-Kompagnie or German New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest list of island countries, island country, with an area of . The nation was split in the 1880s between German New Guinea in the North and the Territory of Papua, British Territory of Papua in the South, the latter of which was ceded to Australia in 1902. All of present-day Papua New Guinea came under Australian control following World War I, with the legally distinct Territory of New Guinea being established out of the former German colony as a League of Nations mandate. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepik Languages
The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a language family, family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik River, Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. The best-studied Sepik language is Iatmül language, Iatmul. The most populous are Iatmul's fellow Ndu languages Abelam language, Abelam and Boiken language, Boiken, with about 35,000 speakers each. The Sepik languages, like their Ramu – Lower Sepik languages, Ramu neighbors, appear to have three-vowel systems, , that distinguish only vowel height in a vertical vowel system. Phonetic are a result of palatal and labial assimilation (linguistics), assimilation to adjacent consonants. It is suspected that the Ndu languages may reduce this to a two-vowel system, with epenthesis, epenthetic (Foley 1986). Classification The Sepik languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepik Hill Languages
The Sepik Hill languages form the largest and most ramified branch of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. They are spoken along the southern margin of the Sepik floodplain in the foothills of Central Range of south-central East Sepik Province. Languages The languages according to Usher (2020) are, ;Sepik Hills * Saniyo-Hiyewe *Southwest Sepik Hills: Niksek (Paka, Gabiano), Piame, Hewa * Bahinemo–Berinomo * East Sepik Hills (Alamblak etc.) The languages according to Foley (2018) are: ;Sepik Hill *Eastern (Alamblak etc.) * Central (Bahinemo etc.) *Western: Saniyo-Hiyewe, Paka ( Setiali), Gabiano Gabiano (Gabian in Piedmontese) is a rural ''comune'' in the northwest of the province of Alessandria, some west of Casale Monferrato. This area straddles the lowland immediately south of the Po and the furthest extension of the Monferrato hil ... ( Niksek), Piame, Bikaru, Umairof, Hewa Other than disagreement at to what is a language or a dialect (''Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language Family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in evolutionary taxonomy. Linguists thus describe the ''daughter languages'' within a language family as being ''genetically related''. The divergence of a proto-language into daughter languages typically occurs through geographical separation, with different regional dialects of the proto-language undergoing different language changes and thus becoming distinct languages over time. One well-known example of a language family is the Romance languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and many others, all of which are descended from Vulgar Latin.Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.)''Ethnologue: Languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitara Language
Bitara, or Berinomo, is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea. It is spoken in Bitara () and Kagiru () villages of Tunap/Hunstein Rural LLG, East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim D .... References Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahinemo Language
Bahinemo (Gahom) is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea. It is spoken in 4 villages, including in Gahom village () of Tunap/Hunstein Rural LLG in East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim D .... References External links * Paradisec open accescollection of recordingsin Bahinemo including stories and histories. Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigilu Language
Nigilu is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagu Language
Wagu is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n .... References Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Papuan Language
Mari is an endangered Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Mari is not used by many children. Although Mari is a language known only by approximately eighty people, it is spoken only within the home. It is spoken in Mari village () of Gawi Rural LLG, East Sepik Province. Recordings of scriptures in the tongue of Mari can be found on the website of the Global Recordings Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to translating Biblical canon A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible. The English word ''canon'' comes from the Ancient Greek, Greek , meaning 'ruler, rule' or 'measu ... and songs into endangered languages and dialects in audio format. References {{Languages of Papua New Guinea Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province Endangered Papuan languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bisis Language
Bisis is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea. It is spoken in three villages, including Yembiyembi () of Gawi Rural LLG in East Sepik Province East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 450,530 people (2011 census) and is 43,426 km square in size. Its density is 10.4 people per square kilometer. History Cherubim D .... References Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapriman Language
Kapriman (or Sare) is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea. Alternative names are ''Mugumute, Wasare''. Phonology Alamblak The Alamblak language is spoken in the Angoram District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. One dialect is spoken in nine villages on the Middle Karawari and Wagupmeri rivers, and another in four villages near Kuvanmas Lake. It is the easte ... also has the same vowel system. References Bahinemo languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
