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Kamula – Elevala River Languages
Kamula (Kamira, Wawoi) is a Trans–New Guinea language that is unclassified within that family in the classification of Malcolm Ross (2005). Noting insufficient evidence, Pawley and Hammarström (2018) leave it as unclassified. Demographics Kamula is spoken in two widely separated areas, including in Kamiyami village of the Wawoi Falls area in Bamu Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. Routamaa (1994: 7) estimates that there are about 800 speakers of Kamula located in 3 villages in Western Province, with no dialectal differences reported. This is because the Kamula had originally lived in camps near Samokopa in the northern area, but a group had split off and moved to Wasapea in the south only around 50 years ago. *''Kesiki'', at Wawoi Falls in Bamu Rural LLG (main village) () *''Samokopa'' in Bamu Rural LLG (one day's walk from Kesiki) () *''Wasapea'' (''Kamiyami''Routamaa, Iska and Judy Routamaa. 1996. Dialect survey report of the Kamula language, Western province' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Western Province is a coastal province in southwestern Papua New Guinea, bordering the Indonesian provinces of Highland Papua and South Papua. The provincial capital is Daru. The largest town in the province is Tabubil. Other major settlements are Kiunga, Ningerum, Olsobip and Balimo. The provincial government has, as with the governments of North Solomons, Chimbu and Northern provinces, sought to change the name of the province. The government uses the name Fly River Provincial Government; however, this remains unofficial as it has not been changed in the Constitution of Papua New Guinea. Geography and ecology Western Province covers 99,300 km² and is the largest province in Papua New Guinea by area. There are several large rivers that run through the province, including the Fly River and its tributaries the Strickland and Ok Tedi rivers. The largest lake in Papua New Guinea, Lake Murray, is also in Western Province. This province is the only part of Papua N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans–New Guinea Languages
Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive Language family, family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to the country Papua New Guinea as well as Western New Guinea, parts of Indonesia. Trans–New Guinea is perhaps the List of language families#By number of languages, third-largest language family in the world by number of languages. The core of the family is considered to be established, but its boundaries and overall membership are uncertain. The languages are spoken by around 3 million people. There have been several main proposals as to its internal classification. History of the proposal Although Papuan languages for the most part are poorly documented, several of the branches of Trans–New Guinea have been recognized for some time. The Eleman languages were first proposed by S. Ray in 1907, parts of Marind languages, Marind were recognized by Ray and JHP Murray in 1918, and the Rai Coast languages in 1919, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Ross (linguist)
Malcolm David Ross (born 1942) is an Australian linguist. He is the emeritus professor of linguistics at the Australian National University. Ross is best known among linguists for his work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact (especially metatypy). He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1996. Career Ross served as the Principal of Goroka Teachers College in Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982, during which time he self-statedly become interested in local languages, and began to collect data on them. In 1986, he received his PhD from the ANU under the supervision of Stephen Wurm, Bert Voorhoeve and Darrell Tryon. His dissertation was on the genealogy of the Oceanic languages of western Melanesia, and contained an early reconstruction of Proto Oceanic. Malcolm Ross introduced the concept of a linkage, a group of languages that evolves via dialect differentiation rather than by tree-like spli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Pawley
Andrew Kenneth Pawley (born 1941 in Sydney) is an Australian–New Zealand linguist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Career Pawley was born in Sydney but moved to New Zealand at the age of 12. He was educated at the University of Auckland, gaining a PhD in anthropology in 1966. His doctoral thesis, ''The structure of Karam: a grammar of a New Guinea Highlands language'', was dedicated to Kalam, a Papuan ( Trans–New Guinea) language of Papua New Guinea. He taught linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland from 1965 to 1989, with periods at the University of Papua New Guinea (1969) and the University of Hawaii (1973 to 1978). He moved to the Australian National University in 1990. He has taught at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute in 1977 and 1985. Pawley took sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamu Rural LLG
Bamu Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The Kamula language is spoken in the LLG, near the Wawoi Falls area. Wards *01. Samakopa (Kamula language speakers) *02. Kawalasi *03. Kamusi ( Dau usoami - Language speakers) *04. Parieme ( Dau uusoami-Language speakers) *05. Bibisa ( Foia Foia language speakers) *06. Gagori *07. Iowa *08. Garu *09. Miruwo *10. Wakau/Sogere *11. Asaramio *12. Bina *13. Sisiam *14. Torobina *15. Bamio *16. Pirupiru *17. Ukusi *18. Nemeti *19. Ibuo See also *Bamu River *Wawoi River Wawoi River is a river located in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. With a total length of , mean annual discharge of and has a drainage basin of its source is located in Mount Bosavi and flows southeast into the Gulf of Papua. The river is ... References * * {{WesternProvincePNG-geo-stub Local-level governments of Western Province (Papua New Guinea) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnologue
''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It was first issued in 1951 and is now published by SIL International, an American evangelical Parachurch organization, Christian non-profit organization. Overview and content ''Ethnologue'' has been published by SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistics, linguistic service organization with an international office in Dallas, Texas. The organization studies numerous minority languages to facilitate language development, and to work with speakers of such language communities in translating portions of the Bible into their languages. Despite the Christian orientation of its publisher, ''Ethnologue'' is not ideologically or theologically biased. ''Ethnologue'' includes alternative names and Exo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SIL International
SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics International) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development. Based on its language documentation work, SIL publishes a database, '' Ethnologue'', of its research into the world's languages, and develops and publishes software programs for language documentation, such as FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) and Lexique Pro. Its main offices in the United States are located at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas. History Early History William Cameron Townsend, a Presbyterian minister, founded the organization in 1934, after undertaking a Christian mission with the Disciples of Christ among the Kaqchikel Maya people in Guatemala in the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gogodala Rural LLG
Gogodala Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The Gogodala-Suki languages, Dibiyaso, and Turumsa are mostly spoken within this LLG. Wards *01. Ali *02. Makapa ( Turumsa language and Dibiyaso language speakers) *03. Isago *04. Pikiwa ( Dibiyaso language speakers) *05. Wasapea (Kamula language speakers) *06. Pisi *07. Semabo *08. Awaba *09. Dadi *10. Aketa *11. Kawito Station *12. Kotale *13. Kewa *14. Tai *15. Dogona *16. Adiba *17. Yau *18. Ike *19. Kini *20. Waligi *21. Kimama *22. Bamutsa ( Dibiyaso language speakers) *23. Uladu *24. Ugu *25. Kenewa *26. Waya *27. Kubu *28. Duaba *29. Konedobu *30. Pagona *31. Dede *32. Sialoa *33. Kawiyapo *34. Uric *35. Aduru ( Makayam language speakers) *36. Baramula ( Baramu language speakers) *37. Tapila ( Abom language and Baramu language speakers) *38. Lewada ( Abom language and Makayam language speakers) *39. Dewara ( Abom language and Were language Were (''Weredai''), or Kiunum, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doso Language
Doso is a language of 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 .... It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct Turumsa language, its only clear relative. It is spoken near Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area. Vocabulary The following basic vocabulary words are from Shaw (1986), as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database: : References Doso–Turumsa languages {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dibiyaso Language
Dibiyaso Bainapi is a Papuan language of Western Province, Papua New Guinea (Bamustu, Makapa, and Pikiwa villages). Classification It is sometimes classified with the Bosavi languages. Søren Wichmann (2013)Wichmann, Søren. 2013A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea. tentatively considers it to be a separate, independent group. Pawley and Hammarström (2018) note that similarities between Bosavi and Dibiyaso are likely due to loanwords, therefore leaving Dibiyaso as unclassified. There is 19% lexical cognacy with Turumsa, suggesting contact or perhaps even a genetic relationship with Doso–Turumsa. Distribution Dibiyaso is spoken in ''Bamustu'' (), ''Makapa'' (), and ''Pikiwa'' () villages of Gogodala Rural LLG, Western Province, Papua New Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gogodala Language
Gogodala is a Papuan language of 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 .... Its closest relative is the Ari language. Phonology can have allophones . can have allophones . References *Capell, Arthur. 1969. ''A Survey of New Guinea Languages''. Sydney: University of Sydney. *Voorhoeve, C.L., 1970. ''Some notes on the Suki-Gogodala subgroup of the Central and South New Guinea phylum''. In S. A. Wurm & D. C. Laycock, eds. Pacific Linguistic Studies in honour of Arthur Capell. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. *Voorhoeve, C. L., 1975. ''Central and Western Trans-New Guinea Phylum Languages''. In Stephen A. Wurm (ed.), New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study Vol 1: Papuan Languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene, 345-460. Canberra: Research Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
