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Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive 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 parts of Indonesia. Trans–New Guinea is perhaps the third-largest language family in the world by number of languages. The core of the family is ...
The Trans-New Guinea Family according to Malcolm Ross Hotel Room Door Signs in Papua New Guinea. Outside Papua New Guinea, Papuan languages that are also spoken include the languages of Indonesia, East Timor, and Solomon Islands. Below is a full list of Papuan language families spoken in Papua New Guinea, following Palmer, et al. (2018): [13]
Torricelli languages (48) Trans–New Guinea languages (598) West Papuan languages (26) Yalë language (isolate) Two of Wurm's isolates have since been linked as the Lower Mamberamo languages (2), and since Wurm's time another isolate and two languages belonging to a new family have been discovered, Abinomn language (isolate) Bayono–Awbono ...
The Marind–Yaqai (Marind–Yakhai) languages are a well established language family of Papuan languages, spoken by the Marind-anim.They form part of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Stephen Wurm and Malcolm Ross, and were established as part of the Anim branch of TNG by Timothy Usher.
The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley in the Highland Papua, Indonesia. Foley (2003) [ citation needed ] considers their Trans–New Guinea language group status to be established.
Language codes; Glottolog: asma1257: Asmat is a Papuan language cluster of South Papua. ... proto-Trans-New Guinea Asmat (Flamingo Bay) *maŋgat[a] ‘teeth, mouth’ ...
The Central and South New Guinea languages (CSNG) are a proposed family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG). They were part of Voorhoeve & McElhanon's original TNG proposal, but have been reduced in scope by half (nine families to four) in the classification of Malcolm Ross. According to Ross, it is not clear if the pronoun similarities ...
Linguists of Trans–New Guinea languages (1 C, 1 P) M. Madang–Upper Yuat languages (2 C, 2 P) Morobe–Eastern Highlands languages (3 C, 4 P) P.