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Kaure–Kosare Languages
The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ... spoken along the Nawa River in West Papua, near the northern border with Papua New Guinea. The languages are Kaure and Kosare. Classification Kaure and Kosare (Kosadle) are clearly related. There is a history of classifying them with the Kapori–Sause languages. However, Kapori and Sause show no particular connection to the Kaure languages, and may be closer to Kwerba. Foley (2018) considers a connection with Trans-New Guinea to be promising, but tentatively leaves Kaure-Kosare out as an independent language family pending further evidence. Proto-language Phonemes Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: : Coda consonants are stop *C (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawa River
The Nawa River is a river in Western New Guinea. It is the major northern tributary of the Taritatu River, which it forms where it merges with the Sobger River. See also *List of drainage basins of Indonesia *List of rivers of Western New Guinea This is a partial list of rivers of Western New Guinea in Indonesia.''Map of Indonesia''. Peta Indonesia. Wawasan Nusantara. CV. Indo Prima Sarana. Accessed 29 Juli 2017. In alphabetical order By mouth location From west to east: North coast ... * Nawa River languages References Rivers of Papua (province) {{Indonesia-river-stub Mamberamo basin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia 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, and were united during episodes of low sea level in the Pleistocene glaciations as the combined landmass of Sahul. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The island's name was given by Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez during his maritime expedition of 1545 due to the perceived resemblance of the indigenous peoples of the island to those in the Guinea (region), African region of Guinea. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the nation of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Pap ... [...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, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosare Language
Kosadle (Kosare) is a Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ... 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] |
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] |
Kwerba Languages
The half dozen Kwerba languages form a small language family spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia. Languages The languages are, *Bagusa language, Bagusa *Kauwera language, Kauwera (Kaowerawedj) *Kwerba language, Kwerba (Sasawa, Air Mati) *Kwerba Mamberamo language, Kwerba Mamberamo (Nopuk) *Trimuris language, Trimuris References External links * Timothy Usher, New Guinea WorldKwerba {{Papuan languages Kwerba languages, Languages of Indonesia Kwerbic languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaure–Kapori Languages
Kaure–Kapori is an obsolete language-classification proposal that linked two language families, * Kapauri–Sause languages *Kaure–Kosare languages The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It form ... Despite a history of linking these two families, there is no evidence for any particular connection. Foley (2018) considers the evidence linking Kaure with Kapauri to be insufficient, and considers Kapauri to be an isolate. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaure-Kapori languages Languages of Indonesia Proposed language families Papuan languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaure–Kosare Languages
The Kaure–Kosare or Nawa River languages are a small family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ... spoken along the Nawa River in West Papua, near the northern border with Papua New Guinea. The languages are Kaure and Kosare. Classification Kaure and Kosare (Kosadle) are clearly related. There is a history of classifying them with the Kapori–Sause languages. However, Kapori and Sause show no particular connection to the Kaure languages, and may be closer to Kwerba. Foley (2018) considers a connection with Trans-New Guinea to be promising, but tentatively leaves Kaure-Kosare out as an independent language family pending further evidence. Proto-language Phonemes Usher (2020) reconstructs the consonant inventory as follows: : Coda consonants are stop *C (o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Languages Of Indonesia
Indonesia is home to over 700 living languages spoken across its extensive archipelago. This significant linguistic variety constitutes approximately 10% of the world’s total languages, positioning Indonesia as the second most linguistically diverse nation globally, following Papua New Guinea. The majority of these languages belong to the Austronesian language family, prevalent in the western and central regions of Indonesia, including languages such as Acehnese language, Acehnese, Sundanese language, Sundanese, and Buginese language, Buginese. In contrast, the eastern regions, particularly Western New Guinea, Papua and the Maluku Islands, are home to over 270 Papuan languages, which are distinct from the Austronesian family and represent a unique linguistic heritage. The language most widely spoken as a native language is Javanese language, Javanese, primarily by the Javanese people in the Central Java, central and East Java, eastern parts of Java Island, as well as across m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language Families
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 of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
