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There is a cluster of languages in West Papua between the upper Taritatu River and the PNG border, including Molof, Usku, and Tofamna listed above but also Namla, Murkim, Lepki, and Kembra, which do not appear to be related to each other or to other languages in the area. Namla, recently discovered, may prove to be related to Tofamna once more ...
According to the official Indonesian law, [2] the Papuans, [2] indigenous Papuans, [2] or native Papuans (the plural anglicisation of Papua or Papwa) are the common native-derived internationalized endonym in Indonesian English for the Native Eastern Indonesians of Papua-origin (as opposed to “New Guineans” term coined by the British colonizers).
Marind is a Papuan language spoken in Malind District, Merauke Regency, Indonesia by over ten thousand people. Dialects are Southeast Marind, Gawir, Holifoersch, and Tugeri. Bian Marind (Northwest Marind), also known as Boven-Mbian, is divergent enough to not be mutually intelligible, and has been assigned a separate ISO cod
Maybrat is a Papuan language spoken in the central parts of the Bird's Head Peninsula in the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua. Maybrat is also known as Ayamaru , after the name of its principal dialect, while the divergent Karon Dori dialect has sometimes been counted as a separate language.
water ʃè flow ʃúr ʃè water flow 'the water flows' (2) ʃúr water ʃé flood ʃúr ʃé water flood 'a big flood' (3) ʃúr water ʃe big ʃúr ʃe water big 'a big river' High/rising tones can also be used to mark plurals (Berry & Berry 1999:21). ndam 'bird', ndám 'birds' nu 'house', nú 'houses' gwa 'taro tuber', gwá 'taro tubers' Grammar Abun has bipartite negation like French ...
The Sarmi-Jayapura Bay languages consist of half a dozen languages spoken on the northern coast of Papua province of Indonesia: [1] Sobei, Bonggo, Tarpia (Sarmi), Kayupulau, Ormu, Tobati–Enggros (Jayapura Bay) Ross (1988) had considered Sarmi and Jayapura Bay (Kayapulau, Orma and Tobati) to be separate but related groups.
Berik is a Papuan language spoken in eastern Papua.Speakers are located in four village groups on the Tor River towards the northern coast of Indonesian-controlled Irian Jaya.
The Mek languages are a well established family of Papuan languages spoken by the Mek people and Yali people.They form a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).