North Huon Gulf languages

The family of North Huon Gulf languages is a subgroup of the Huon Gulf languages of Papua New Guinea.

North Huon Gulf
Geographic
distribution
Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Subdivisions
Glottolognort2858[1]

It consists of 3 languages, all of which are distinguished by severe truncation of many inherited roots and the compensatory development of suprasegmentals on vowels: phonemic tone in Yabem and Bukawa (Ross 1993) and nasalization in Kela (Johnson 1994).

Languages

Footnotes

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "North Huon Gulf linkage". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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References

  • Eckermann, W. (2007). A descriptive grammar of the Bukawa language of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. PL585. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Johnson, Morris (1994). Kela organised phonology data.
  • Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Ross, Malcolm (1993). "Tonogenesis in the North Huon Gulf chain." In Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson, eds., Tonality in Austronesian languages, 133–153. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 24. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
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