Sarmi–Jayapura Languages
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The Sarmi-Jayapura Bay languages consist of half a dozen languages spoken on the northern coast of Papua province of
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: : Sobei, Bonggo, Tarpia (Sarmi), Kayupulau, Ormu, TobatiEnggros (Jayapura Bay) Ross (1988) had considered Sarmi and Jayapura Bay (Kayapulau, Orma and Tobati) to be separate but related groups. Ross (1988) listed several additional Sarmi languages: : Anus (Korur) and Podena, Liki, and Wakde (close to Sobei), Masimasi, Kaptiau and
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. The inclusion of a supposed ''Yarsun'' language appears to be due to confusion of language names with island names. No such language is attested; the island is located between that of the
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and Podena languages, and all three islands are reported to speak dialects of a single language according to the first source to mention it.Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices With the exception of certain
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, the Sarmi–Jayapura languages have the westernmost distribution out of all Oceanic languages.


Sound correspondences

Grace (1971:34–37) published a table of sound correspondences for the Sarmi languages, from which the following forms are gleaned. The languages are arranged from west to east.


References

* Grace, George W. (1971). Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast. ''Oceanic Linguistics'' 10:11–37. * Ross, Malcolm (1988). ''
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of western Melanesia.'' Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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