Huon Gulf languages
The Huon Gulf languages are Western Oceanic languages spoken primarily in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. They may form a group of the North New Guinea languages, perhaps within the Ngero–Vitiaz branch of that family.
Huon Gulf | |
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Geographic distribution | Papua New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | huon1245[1] |
Unusually for Oceanic languages, two North Huon Gulf languages, Bukawa and Yabem, are tonal. The only other tonal Oceanic languages are found in New Caledonia.[2]
Classification
According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:[3]
- North Huon Gulf linkage
- Markham family
- South Huon Gulf linkage
- Numbami
gollark: Aha, it observizes it.
gollark: ++magic py await bot.fetch_channel(826924583466172453)
gollark: Troubling.
gollark: ++magic py type(bot.get_guild(733813103891972130).fetch_channel(826924583466172453))
gollark: ABR *does not see* the channel and it troubles me.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Huon Gulf". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blust, Robert (2013). The Austronesian languages. A-PL 008 (revised ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/10191. ISBN 9781922185075.
- Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
- Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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