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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]
The Dictionary and Grammar of Hiri Motu. University of Papua New Guinea Press. 1976. NLA 677945. Wurm, Stephen A.; Harris, J. B. (1963). Police Motu: an introduction to the trade language of Papua (New Guinea) for anthropologists and other fieldworkers. Pacific Linguistics Series B, No. 1. Canberra: Australian National University. doi: 10.15144 ...
The following basic vocabulary words are from McElhanon & Voorhoeve (1970) [1] and McElhanon (1967), [2] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database. [3] The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. hɔme, samo for “nose”) or not (e.g. mic-, sot, dzɔŋɔ for “tooth”). Notice the very low number of ...
Tok Pisin (English: / t ɒ k ˈ p ɪ s ɪ n / TOK PISS-in, [3] [4] / t ɔː k,-z ɪ n / tawk, -zin; [5] Tok Pisin [tok pisin] [1]), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is an English creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the
The contemporary classification of the Polynesian languages began with certain observations by Andrew Pawley in 1966 based on shared innovations in phonology, vocabulary and grammar showing that the East Polynesian languages were more closely related to Samoan than they were to Tongan, calling Tongan and its nearby relative Niuean "Tongic" and ...
The following basic vocabulary words are from Laycock (1968), [2] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database. [3] The words cited constitute translation equivalents, whether they are cognate (e.g. elktife, elaŋkitif for “tongue”) or not (e.g. nikiw, rakun, taŋən for “ear”).
The Engan family constitutes a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages in the classifications of Wurm and of Malcolm Ross, but the evidence for this is weak. Usher links the Engan and Chimbu languages in a Central New Guinea Highlands family. [2] There are a considerable number of resemblances with Wiru. Borrowing has not been ruled out as ...