Oxford University Press, 2008. — 729 p. — ISBN: 0199539812. This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. About 200-400 speakers live in...
Cenderawasih University Press, 1987. — xii + 104 p. This book contains conversations which were written and examined by several Mairasi speakers from the village of Lobo. We want to express gratitude to them for their help. The translation of the conversations into Indonesian and English are according to the meaning of the sentences, and not word for word. The purpose of this...
Summer Institute of Linguistics — 42 p. This is a brief outline of some features of the grammar of the Muhiang (Suthern Arapesh) language of the Arapesh family in the Torricelli Phylum. Muhiang is a language spoken in the Maprik and Yangoru Sub-Provinces, East Sepik Province. It has three principal dialects: Bagetef (also called Supari or Northern dialect), Central (Balif...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965. — xv + 246 p. The Nimboran language is spoken by some 3,000 people living about 20 miles due west of Lake Sentani, inland from the north coast of New Guinea. In this study special attention has been paid to the numerous problems of morphophonology which arise owing to the presence of numerous affixial and inflexional morphemes in a language where...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2010. — 109 p. The Folopa language is spoken by approximately 2500 people living in the Southern Highlands Province and the Kikori subdistrict of the Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. It is a member of the Teberan language family, the only other member of which is the Dadibi language in the Mount Karamui area of the Chimbu Province. Each lesson is...
LINCOM, 2008. — xxiv + 646 p. This study presents a detailed description of the Western Dani language. All the word classes are discussed beginning with the nouns. While some nouns may have plural forms, normally the same form is used for both singular and plural. Possession is indicated by prefixes and there are a small number of suffixes marking such things as place and...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. — xvi, 773 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 6). — ISBN 978-3-96110-415-4. This book is a grammatical description of Ulwa, a Papuan language spoken by about 600 people living in four villages in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Ulwa belongs to the Keram language family. This grammatical description is based on a corpus of...
ANU Press, 2020. — 214 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics). This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. A...
Canberra: ANU Press, 2020. — xiv, 200 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics). — ISBN 978-1-76046-383-0. This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa, EHP, 2006. — 258 p. Papers in the series Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages express the authors’ knowledge at the time of writing. They normally do not provide a comprehensive treatment of the topic and may contain analyses which will be modified at a later stage. However, given the large number of undescribed languages in Papua...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015. — xiv, 499 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 4). — ISBN: 978-3-946234-27-2. This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length treatment of the Mauwake language...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1999. — xii + 236 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 115). — ISBN: 0858834820. This description is an attempt to provide a comprehensive view of the structure of Abun. It deals with the phonology, morphology and syntax of the language, including not only simple clauses but also complex sentences,...
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1950. — 220 p. Marind language. Makleu language. Jelmek language. Mombum language. Kanumlanguage. Moraori language. Jei language. Boazi lanquage. Auju language. Kati language. Kamoro language. Ekari language. Pronouns. Numerals. Time and tense. Aspects. Interrogative forms. The indication of subject and relation. Compound sentences. Some peculiar...
SIL Papua New Guinea, 1999. — 150 p. The Arammba people are a semi nomadic language group living in Western Province of Papua New Guinea, South of the Fly River and North of Morehead. The Arammba language is a Papuan language of the Trans-Fly Stock, Morehead & Upper Maro Rivers family and Tonda sub-family.
Universitas Cenderawasih - Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979. — 92 p. The Berik language is spoken by about 1100 people grouped in 10 villages along the Tor River on the North Coast of the province of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is a non-Austronesian language of the Tor Stock. Berik is the "lingua franca" for smaller groups in the area.
De Gruyter Mouton, 1971. — xv, 871 p. — (Current Trends in Linguistics 8, 1). Indigenous Languages Austronesian The Austronesian Languages And Proto-Austronesian Dyen, Isidore Indonesia And Malaysia Uhlenbeck, E. M. Tagalog And Other Major Languages Of The Philippines Constantino, Ernesto Minor Languages Of The Philippines McKaughan, Howard The Austronesian Languages Of Formosa...
Ukarumpa: SIL Printing Press, 2012. — 236 p. — (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 58). — ISBN 9980-0-3649-4. Phonology. Pronouns, nouns and noun phrases. Verbs and verb phrases. Minor word classes. Clause structure. Complex sentence structure. Discourse considerations. Lexical issues.
Ukarumpa: SIL Printing Press, 2007. — XII, 187 p. — (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 53). — ISBN: 9980-0-3353-3. This grammar was originally written in the 1990s and finalised in 2001. Because so little information is available on Fuyug and because Robert is no longer working in the Fuyug area, it was decided that publishing this analysis would be a service to...
Canberra: UNUC, 1981. — 438 p. — (Pacific Linguistics C-63). A complete grammar of the Dani people, also spelled Ndani, and sometimes conflated with the Lani group to the west, are a people from the central highlands of western New Guinea (the Indonesian province of Papua, comprising the larger Eastern part of the former province Irian Jaya). They are one of the most populous...
S-Gravenhage - Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. — xvi + 98 p. The purpose of the present study is to provide a description of the phonemic structure of Lower Grand Valley Dani in relationship to other Dani dialects. The material is presented in four chapters: Chapter II contains a survey of the phonemic systems of proto-Dani and eight extant dialects; Chapter III is a detailed phonemic...
University of North Dakota, 2009. — 112 p. Urama is a Kiwai language spoken by the Urama people of Papua New Guinea. Very little has been published in the Kiwai language family and although Urama has been mentioned in a few papers nothing focusing on the Urama language has been published. This thesis presents a brief grammar sketch outlining key grammar features. It describes...
University of North Dakota, August 2009. — 112 p. Народ Урама (Папуа - Новая Гвинея) живет в Kivaumai, Kinomere, Moveamu, Gauri и других деревнях на острове Урама и других островах вблизи устьев рек Era и Ivi западнее Baimuru в районе Delta провинции Gulf. Их язык является диалектом языка NE Kiwai, другие диалекты Kope, Arigibi и Gibaio.
Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 2016. — viii + 134 p. Urama is a Papuan language spoken primarily on Urama Island in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the Gulf Province, in the vicinity of Deception Bay, in the Era River Delta. Urama is part of the Kiwai language family, which is distributed along the south coast of Papua New Guinea, and is a family with relatively sparse documentation....
Unpublished, 1990. — vi + 131 p. Waris is a Papuan language of the Imonda Sub-district, Amanab District, Sandaun Province. About 3,000 people in about 24 villages speak one of the four major dialects of Waris, and an additional number, perhaps as many as 1,400, speak it in the adjacent Kecamatan Waris of Indonesian Irian Jaya. It is classified as a member of the Border Stock,...
Canberra: Australian National University, 1984. — vi + 361 pages. — (Pacific Linguistics C 81).
The Alamblak language is spoken in the Angoram District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It is the easternmost of the Sepik Hill languages.
Ukarumpa: SIL Printing Department, 1974. — 238 p. — (Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 5). — ISBN 0-7263-0240-6. Following S.A. Wurm's classification of the languages of the Hagen-Wahgi-Jimi-Chimbu family, Golin is a sub-dialect of the Marigl dialect of the Dom language. Golin is the tribal name of a number of clans situated on the south bank of the Marigl River,...
Uppsala University, 2024. — 46 p. I have chosen to begin the description of the Papuan language Owininga, also spelled Owiniga, glottocode owin1240. Owininga is spoken by around 300 people in the East Sepik Province of Northern Papua New Guinea (Laycock, 1973). There has been very little descriptive work done on Owininga, and the little work that has been done has not been...
SIL International, 2000. — 16 p. Brief grammatical description and word list for Elseng, a previously undocumented and endangered language spoken by approximately 300 people in Papua Province, Indonesia. Due to the paucity of data and the seeming lack of any lexical similarities with other Papuan families, Elseng is generally considered to be a language isolate.
SIL International, 2007. — 101 p. This paper presents a descriptive analysis of the phonological properties of Wano, a Papuan language of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum of the Dani-Kwerba stock. The analysis is based on data from the author’s personal fieldwork. The paper provides an initial framework of Wano phonemes and their graphemes. It is intended to be a starting point for...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991. — iv + 137 p. The speakers of Tainae number approximately 1000 and live in an area about 9 miles square in the Gulf Province in Papua New Guinea. Three main dialects make up the Tainae language, but the variation between these is mostly restricted to lexical items. The sources for the data in this paper are drawn from a representative cross...
A language isolate spken on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. 75 p., Part 1 of: Two non-Austronesian grammars from the islands. John M. Clifton (ed.) 1996. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 42. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. iv
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1991. — x + 297 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 113). Bukiyip (Mountain Arapesh) is a member of the Arapesh family of the Kombio stock of the Torricelli phylum in Papua New Guinea. The distinctive feature of the languages of the Arapesh family is their extensive noun class system, which plays a central...
Australian Catholic University, 2015. — 316 p. Mbaham is a non-Austronesian language spoken by approximately one thousand people, living in several villages in the Onin region of the Bomberai peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia. Mbaham and two related languages, Iha and Karas, are classified as West Bomberai languages of the Trans-New Guinea family (Ross 2005; Lewis, Simons &...
Publication date: 1965 Number of pages: 100 The first grammatical description of the Sentani language was published by this writer in Oceania, vols. XXI (1950-'51), pp. 214-228 and 302-309; and XXII (195l-'52), pp. 53-71 and 315-316, under the title of "Notes on Sentani Grammar". It was the result of fieldwork during my stay in West New Guinea in the years 1946-1950. As was...
North Holland, 1981. — 248 p. — (Lingua Descriptiva Series). A description of Kobon, a Papuan language spoken in the Kaironk Valley of Papua New Guinea. Kobon is in the same family of the better known Kalam language.
KITLV Press, Leiden, 1992. — xiv + 98 p. This book presents an outline of the morphology of Wambon, an Awyu-Dumut language belonging to the Trans-New Guinea phylum. Each section of the book discusses a word category that seems relevant to Wambon grammar. The word categories are first characterized in terms of where and how they function in phrases and clauses and/or in terms of...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — xii + 156 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 560). — ISBN: 0858835452. The Inanwatan language is spoken in three places. First, in the village Inanwatan on the south coast of the Bird's Head peninsula, where the Siganoi waters into the MacCluer Gulf. Inanwatan is the main village of the lnanwatan...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1993. — 140 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 108). Between 1982 and 1991 I worked as a linguist for the ZGK ( Mission of the Re formed Churches) in the Upper-Digul area of Irian Jaya with the assignment to study Wambon , Kombai and Korowai , three languages of the Awyu family. During this time I spent...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 264 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 657). This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family:...
Unpublished, 2011. — 122 p. Pouye is a Papuan language, spoken by approximately 1,400 speakers in the Lumi District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The language is classified as belonging to the Ram branch of the Sepik-Ramu Family, with its two closest relatives being Awtuw and Karawa.
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1976. — 175 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 48). Grammatical overview Minimal clause predicates Functions of verb relators Expandet (aspectual) verb phrases Sentence structure The theoretical model
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — xii, 446 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 22). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-125-2. Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — xii, 434 p. — (Open Text Collections 1). — ISBN 978-3-96110-494-9. This collection of fourteen texts in Komnzo offers an insight into the language and culture of the Farem people, their storytelling tradition, oral history, mythology and everyday life. It contains stories from nine narrators, which were transcribed, translated and...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2007. — xviii + 346 p. Maybrat is a Papuan language which is spoken in the central area of the Bird’s Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia. This book aims to give an overview of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the Maybrat language as it is spoken by the people of Ayawasi. Ideally, this work can be used as a...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2007. — 346 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 586). Maybrat is a Papuan language which is spoken in the central area of the Bird’s Head Peninsula, Papua Province, Indonesia. The total number of speakers is approximately 22,000 (Brown 1991:1). Despite the fact that it is one of the larger local languages...
University of Cenderawasih and Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991. — xxii + 132 p. The Kaure people live in the four villages of Harna, Masta, Wes and Aurina in the interior of Irian Jaya. The population is just over 400. The language is classified as Non-Austronesian. There are two main dialects; the first is spoken in Harna and Masta. The second, which differs only slightly,...
Unpublished, 1997. — 128 p. The Wipi language is a member of the Eastern Trans-Fly Family, part of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum of languages. It is spoken by approximately 2,500 people in fourteen main villages located in the eastern plains between the Fly River and the Coral Sea. This analysis is based on around 25 months of field work done between October 1991 and December 1995....
University of Sydney, 1999. — 76 p. Warembori is a language spoken by 600-700 people living in river mouths on the north coast of the island of New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya. It has not been previously described in any grammatical detail, and this sketch presents some of the complexities of applicative and noun incorporation structures, as well as aspects...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — xvii + 131 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 554). This is the first linguistic documentation of I'saka, a tonal language belonging to the Skou family spoken in Sandaun Province in the extreme north-west of Papua New Guinea. I'saka, the language of 600-plus residents of Krisa village in...
National University of Singapore, 2004. — 220 p. This book presents a description of the grammar of the Skou language, with at least basic coverage of most other ‘core’ parts of the grammar, and more detailed coverage of selected topics. It cannot do equal justice to the entire range of grammatical systems found in the language, nor, in all likelihood, cover all aspects of...
Pacific Linguistics 1997. — 22 p. A short introduction to Hatam, a West Papuan language spoken in the Indonesian occupied territory of West Papua. The sketch includes an account of Hatam phonology and morphophonemics, a short grammatical sketch and a wordlist.
S Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1963. — viii + 236 p. In de hier volgende Spraakkunst beschrijven we drie dialecten van de Asmat-taal, nI. Kawenak, Keenok en Keenakap.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1973. — 94 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 24). This list provides an alphabetized cross-referenced list of languages and present-day villages of the Central and Northern Districts of papual together with those of neighbouring parts of the Milne Bay and Morobe Districts where languages, or parts of...
Pacific Linguistics, 1975. — 132 p. Koita, also known as Koitabu, is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea in the Port Moresby area. It belongs to the Koiarian language family.
The Australian National University, 1969. — 198 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 9). Village communalects in Central papua may be broadly classified into two distinct genetically unrelated groups -- Austronesian (hereafter symbolised AN) and non-Austronesian (hereafter symbolised non-AN). The AN languages are to be found scattered around the coast and inland for some...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1992. — 166 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 120). Karl J. Franklin and Roman Stefaniw - The 'pandanus languages' of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea - a further report Don Kulick - Language shift as cultural reproduction David Lithgow - Language change on Fergusson and Nonnanby Islands,...
Lincom Europa, 1996. - 77 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 10). Koiari is a Papuan (or nonAustronesian) language spoken by about 1600 people living in the foothills of the Owen Stanley Range just inland of Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. It is a member of the Koiarian family, one of about sixty families of Papuan languages found in Papua New Guinea and...
The Australian National University, 2010. — xii + 126 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 610/Studies in language change 7). The Koiarian family, part of the putative Trans New Guinea group of Papuan languages, stretches from around Port Moresby on the southern coast of southeast Papua almost to the sea on the north coast at the eastern end of the Hydrographers’ Ranges. The author here...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. — XIV, 321 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; 9). — ISBN: 0-19-510551-6. This book is a first step in the study of the fascinating language and culture of the Korowai, a Papuan community of tree house dwellers in the magnificent rainforest of southern Irian Jaya, Indonesia, in the area between the upper Becking and...
Parkville: University of Melbourne, 2005. — VIII, 213 p. Golin belongs to the Chimbu (Simbu) family of the Trans-Papua-New-Guinea phylum, along with such languages as Wahgi, Melpa/Medlpa (including Ku Waru), Nii, Kuman, Dom, Chuave, Salt-Yui and Sinasina. Typologically, it is a typical highlands Papuan language, with basic SOV word order, simple nominal morphology but rather...
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012 ‒ vi + 253 p. ‒ (Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 5) ‒ ISBN: 978-0-9856211-2-4. The region where Papuan languages are spoken ‒ centred on the Island of New Guinea, with extensions westward into Timor and the islands of eastern Indonesia, and eastward into the Solomon Islands ‒ is at same time the most...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1998. — 490 p. — ISBN: 085883491X. This is a grammar of the Nabak language of the Huon Peninsula, PNG; a non-Austronesian language. It is a language with extensive morphophonemics. The grammar includes numerous glossed examples, together with several texts and a dictionary. A...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1998. — 502 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 144). Nabak is a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 16,000 people in the western Huon Peninsula (Naba Census District of the Lae Sub-District of the Morobe Province). This paper is a description of the basic grammatical...
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1979. — xi + 255 p. The present study compares the morphology of two languages which are related on the sub-family level: the Abenaho dialect of the Yali language and the Mugogo dialect of the Grand Valley Dani language.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1999. — 480 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 148). This book compares and contrasts the structure and functions of three types of complex constructions in Korafe, a language spoken in the Oro Province of Papua New Guinea. These three constructions are: (1) serial verb constructions (svcs), (2)...
Parkville: University of Melbourne, 2007. — 499 p.
Mian (known as Mianmin in the literature) is a Papuan language of the Ok family. The Ok family of languages is comparatively well-established within the Trans-New Guinea (TNG) family, as a group of roughly the same order of internal diversification as Germanic or Romance within Indo-European. Mian is spoken by about 3,500...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 631 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 55). — ISBN10: 3110264188, 13 978-3110264180. Mian is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language of the Ok family spoken in the Highlands fringe in western Papua New Guinea. Mian has approximately 1,400 speakers and is highly endangered. This grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — vi + 230 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 94). Awtuw is the first language of about 400 people living in five villages in the southern foothills of the Torricelli Range in north-western Papua New Guinea. Along with Karawa and Pouye it is one of the Ram Languages, a branch of the Sepik Family of...
In Namia and Amanab grammar essentials, John R. Roberts (ed.). pages 1-97. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 39. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Namia is a Yellow River (Sepik) language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea.
Universitas Cenderawasih and Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1990. — 175 p. This book is dedicated to those who would like to learn to speak the Orya language, especially to those whose work is in the Unu."Cum-Guay district. It is hoped that this book will provide much help in gaining a basic minimum vocabulary and conversation ability. others may be interested in the book,...
Unpublished draft, 2000. — 53 p. + appendices (8 p.) Brief sketch of the Orya language with two appendices: A. Wordlist and B. Complex Sentence Types (a.k.a. Orya connectors). A third appendix (C. Verb List) is missing.
[Manuscript]. : s.n. 1974. — vi + 181 p. The present draft of the Rotokas grammar is intended to serve three purposes. It is first an outline of a future draft in which the missing chapters will be filled in, and in which the whole grammar including the portions presented here will be tied together. Secondly, this draft provides without further delays the materials on Rotokas...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 266 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 667). Kopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the structure of Kopar. Although the period of fieldwork was...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 305 p. — (Cambridge Language Surveys).
Papuan languages
In some respects this book may seem premature. Papuan languages are probably the most poorly known in the world; of over 700 languages in more than sixty language families, no more than fifty languages or less than ten per cent are in any sense adequately documented. For some languages...
Stanford University Press, 1991. - 507 p.
Yimas is an agglutinative polysynthetic language; together with Karawari, Angoram, Chambri, Murik, and Kopar it constitutes the morphologically highly elaborated Lower Sepik language family of the Sepik-Ramu region. Foley's monograph "is the result of a research project spread over some ten years" (p. vii), and the almost 500 pages of...
SIL - Pacific Asian Series, 1974. — 297 p. The Yessan-Mayo language is a language spoken by approximately 900 speakers living in the Ambunt i Sub -district of the East Sepik District of Papua New Guinea. There are two dialects. The major dialect is spoken by more than 500 people who live in villages and hamlets situated on the north and south shores of the Sepik River, 20-30...
Draft. — 1981. — 124 p. The Timbe language is spoken by about 11,000 people on the north side of Mount Sarawaget in the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea. This present study is limited to monologues, that is letters, recorded stories and written texts.
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1971. — x + 147 p. The Kewa people, who live in the Southern Highlands District of Papua and number over 40,000, are part of a large Highlands Stock. The Kewa language is a member of the West-Central Family, a family which also includes Enga, Ipili, Huli, and Mendi.
The Australian National University, 1968. — 76 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 10). Empirically, the Kewa language can be defined in terms of the dialects outlined in this chapter. The evidence is basically linguistic in nature and reflects certain geographical and historical factors which are synchronically portrayed. Socially, the Kewa language does not represent any...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1973. — 597 p.
The present volume attempts to give a general classification of the Gulf District languages spoken in south-eastern Papua New Guinea.
ANU Press, 2022. — 198 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics). Qaqet is a non-Austronesian language, spoken by about 15,000 people in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In the remote inland, children acquire Qaqet as their first language. Much of what we know about child‑directed speech (CDS) stems from children living in middle‑class, urban, industrialised contexts. This book...
SIL, 2005. — viii + 179 p. Speakers of the Bariai language live on the northwest coast of the island of New Britain, in the West New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea. Unlike what has previously been published on the language, this present work endeavours to provide a more detailed grammatical description of Bariai, without making an attempt to compare it with the related...
2013. — 83 p. Language name: Guhu Samane [ghs] Classification: Trans-New Guinea, Greater Binanderean Location of Language Group: Waria Valley, Bulolo District and Eipa,Huon District in Morobe Province and Papuan Waria in Oro Province of Papua New Guinea Dialect(s) represented in this description: Lower Waria (Central Dialect) Name(s) of contributor(s): Titus Gamudze, Tom...
Summer Institute of Linguistics. — exact source unknown. — p. 107-222. Mountain Koiali is a member language of the Koiarian Language family of Central Papua. It is spoken by approximately 3700 speakers scattered over the southern and northern slopes of the Owen Stanley Range of the Central And Northern Districts, Papua New Guinea. The dialect used in this paper is spoken in and...
Draft. — 1977. — 145 p (revised by Lillie Pat, 1992). This is a description of the Girawa grammar from stem to clause level. Girawa, a non-austronesian language of the Kokon Family, Mabuso Stock, is spoken by over 3,000 people living about 30 miles south west of Madang in the Ramu Sub-province of the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea. Morphophonemics. Stems. Words. Phrases....
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1977. — x + 271 p. Kunimaipa is a Papuan language of the Goilalan family spoken by an estimated 8000 people. The Gazili dialect, about which this analysis is written, is spoken in the Bubu valley near Garaina in the Morobe Province. There are seven levels of the Kunimaipa grammatical structure which have been investigated and described in this...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018 — xxiii, 978 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 654). This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018 — xxiii, 978 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 654). This book is a description of Kilmeri, a language of Papua New Guinea, based on the author's fieldwork. The volume is dedicated to the detailed description of form and meaning and their interface, which is supported through extensive illustration by examples. The narrative structure of entire texts is...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2002 (Revised Edition). — 118 p. This paper attempts to describe the grammar of Kanite. It also purports to give notes for a tentative comparative grammar of the Inoke and Kagufi dialects of the Kanite language. Kanite is spoken by approximately 6,000 people in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Kamono–Yagaria...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2010. — xiv + 338 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 619). This book is the first detailed linguistic description of the Meyah language. The Meyah people live in the eastern Bird’s Head region of Papua, Indonesia. Although the Meyah had early contact with Western people, specifically the British in the early 18th century and the...
Vrije Universiteit, 2010. — xvi + 577 p.
Moskona is a language spoken in the eastern Bird’s Head peninsula of the island of New Guinea. Although contact with the outside world has been established for around fifty or sixty years, a comprehensive grammar of the language has not yet been done. Thus, this presentation is the first extensive grammatical description of the Moskona...
Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2004. — vi + 107 p. The Kaluli language is spoken by a population of approximately 2,500 people living on the northern and western slopes of Mt. Bosavi, on the border of the Southern Highlands and Western Provinces of Papua New Guinea. Kaluli is classified as a Papuan language belonging to the Trans-New Guinea Phylum, of the Central and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1980. — 609 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 5). There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly...
Unpublished, 2002. — viii + 175 p. This paper is a tentative statement of the basic grammatical features of the Maia language. Maia is a Papuan language belonging to the Kaukombaran language family, part of the Trans-New Guinea phylum, and is located in the Almami district of the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea. Although Maia is a Papuan language, it has borrowed a number of...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1990. — iv + 77 p. Nend is a member of the Atan Family within the Adelbert Range subphylum of the Trans-New Guinea phylum. It is spoken by the Angaua people of the Madang Province. There are around 2,000 speakers of the language.
Universitas Cenderawasih & Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979. — xiii + 30 p. The Sentani are a people whose traditional home is located on the islands and shores of Lake Sentani, near Jayapura. The Sentani language is non-Austronesian, comprising three dialects designated by their positions along Lake Sentani as Eastern, Central, and Western Sentani. These conversations are...
NY: University at Buffalo, 2016. — 628 p. Хэтфилд Адам. Грамматика языка мехек (на англ. яз.) Mehek is a Tama language spoken by about 6300 people in a somewhat mountainous area along the southern base of the Torricelli Mountains in northwestern Papua New Guinea. Mehek is a fairly typical Papuan language, being verb-final, having a relatively simple phonology, and agglutinative...
University of Pittsburgh, 2001. — 401 p. Although Ternate is a West Papuan language, it has many Austronesian features and loanwords due to the long history of language contact. There are also some regional features, such as the orientation system, that are present in all languages in the northern Moluccas regardless the language families. Among West Papuan languages, Ternate...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2002. — 89 p. Odoodee is spoken by a group of people living in the Balimo and Nomad Districts of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a Papuan language, belonging to the Strickland Plain Sub-Family of the Bosavi Language Family, part of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum.
S.n. [manuscript], 1976. — 249 p.
This volume is a description of the grammatical hierarchy of the Umbu-Ungu dialect of the Kaugel language (Trans-New Guinean family), spoken by about 80,000 people living in the Western and Southern Highlands Provinces of Papua New Guinea.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1964. — 56 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 3). At first glance the phoneme inventory and phonological structure of Telefol appear to be relatively simple. However the phonemic analys is of this language has proved surprisingly difficult, and cannot yet be said to be complete even after almost five years...
Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1998. — 411 p. — (Mensch, Kultur und Umwelt im zentralen Bergland von West-Neuguinea 23). After the dictionary and texts, the grammar concludes the documentation of Eipo, a Papuan language. In addition to the actual grammar, the work contains a detailed ethnological introduction, considerations on grammar theory as they result from data proximity and...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1998. — 106 p. Lembena is a language spoken by approximately 1500 people who live on the border of Enga and East Sepik Provinces west of the Yuat River. It is a Papuan language of the Enga Subfamily, West Central Family, East New Guinea Highlands Stock, Central New Guinea Phylum. The data upon which this analysis is based consists of a mix of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 502 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 79). This grammar is a first detailed description of Qaqet, a non-Austronesian language spoken in the mountainous interior of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Qaqet belongs to the small Baining language family (comprising six languages), but its wider genetic affiliations remain unclear. It is included...
E-book, 2009. — 267 p.
Urim is a non-Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea. Laycock (1973) classifies it as a stock-level isolate of the Torricelli Phylum. It is spoken by about 3400 people, who live in 16 villages in the southern foothills of the Torricelli Mountains. Twelve of the villages are located south of the Sepic Highway, and one is north of the highway, in...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1995. — 117 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 112). Yele is a language isolate spoken on the Rossel island, the easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea.
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992. — 123 p. The Kombio language has been classified as a Papuan language of the Torricelli Phylum, belonging to the Kombio stock. However it bears significant phonological and some grammatical resemblance to the Urim language, currently classified as a Torricelli phylum stock-level isolate. The Torricelli languages have very different typologies...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2006. — 166 p. This is a complete revision (and enlargement) of a previous manuscript entitled, "Bargam Grammar Essentials" (Hepner, 1986). Bargam is a non-Austronesian language of the Trans-New Guinea phylum and the Adelbert Range Super-Stock. It is classified by Z’graggen (1971) as a stock-level isolate within the Madang-Adelbert Range sub-phylum...
University of North Dakota, 1993. — 134 p. This thesis is a description of the phonology of Imyan Tehit, a West Papuan language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, couched in the framework of templatic syllable theory espoused by Junko Ito. It is based on 18 months (1989-1991) of linguistic fieldwork, in which the author and his family lived among the Tehit of Haha village, learning...
Publication date: 1994
Number of pages: 129
The Mende language is spoken by roughly 6,000 people who live in 15 villages in Nuku district, Sandaun Province. The Mendevpeople communicate in vernacular with the people from the Tau 1,vTau 2 and Tau 3 villages and Kubiwat 1 and Kubiwat 2 villages in the East Sepik ( 5 villages and around 2,000 people). Other Kwanga dialects in the...
Lincom, 2003. — 99 p. ISBN: 9783895867064.
Tobelo is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 15,000 persons on the islands of Halmahera and Morotai in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku. The phonemic inventory of Tobelo consists of five vowels and twenty consonants, including a palatal lateral, glide and nasal. Syllable structure is generally (C)V. Roots are...
Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2008. — X, 187 p. — (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 55). — ISBN: 9980-0-3426-0.
The Kwomtari–Baibai languages, often referred to ambiguously as Kwomtari languages, are a hypothetical language family of six languages spoken by some 4000 people in the north of Papua New Guinea, near the border with Indonesia. The term...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2010. — 164 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 616). This book contains six articles written about grammatical and discourse features of New Guinea languages. The articles are 'Yongkom discourse: ergativity and topic' by Steve Christensen, 'Participant reference in Namia' by Becky Feldpausch, 'Elements of...
SIL International, 2020. — 45 p. This paper is an update to "Nasioi Verbs" published in 1970. The language is spoken by people living in the Kieta area of south Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea. This paper describes Naasioi verbs in terms of inner structure. Of special interest is verb structure sensitivity to rhythm and high vowel proximity.
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1974. — iv + 155 p. This is a statement of the grammar of the Salt-Yui language. It covers all the levels in the grammatical hierarchy, that is, from words to discourse. The emphasis, especially in the first four chapters, is a pedagogical one which is combined with an analysis of all that occurs in the language.
Universität Regensburg, 2012. — xv + 564 p. This is a grammatical description of the Papuan language Iatmul. It is based on almost fourteen months of fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, distributed over four trips in 2005/2006, 2007, and 2008. The structure of the book is as follows: Chapter 1 presents the language, its genetic affiliation, and its typological profile; the area where...
Universitas Cenderawasih and Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979. — x + 59 p. The Isirawas are a people whose traditional home is located on the north coast of Irian Jaya. They number around 2,000. There are very slight dialectal differences between those who live west and those who live east of the Ferkami River. These conversations basically follow the west dialect since...
Yayasan Betania Irian Jaya, 1997. — xi + 36 p. The Mpur language is spoken by about 5000 speakers located in the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya. It is divided into two dialects, Ajiw and Sirir. Both dialects are reportedly understood by all, but Sirir is considered to be more refined. These conversations, in general, follow the Sirir dialect. This book consists of conversations...
Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. — p. 5-74. — (Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages 6).
Washkuk is a Sepik language spoken in the East Sepik district, northern Papua New-Guinea. It has two main dialects: Kwoma (in the hills), and Nukuma (in the swampy areas).
University of North Dakota, 1988. — 112 p. This thesis presents an analysis of the phonology and an overview of the morphology of the Tabaru language. The phonology is analyzed in light of recent theory and the merits of metrical, CV and lexical phonology are discussed as they relate to some inadequacies of earlier generative theory.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — xx + 496 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 661). Tayap is a small, previously undocumented Papuan language, spoken in a single village called Gapun, in the lower Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The language is an isolate, unrelated to any other in the area. Furthermore, Tayap is dying. Fewer than fifty speakers actively command it today. Based on...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2007. — 163 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 589). Speakers of Kalam, a language of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, use serial verb constructions extensively. In Kalam, these constructions take the form of one or more bare verb stems followed by an inflected verb. Serial verb constructions in Kalam,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 246 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 39). Much is now known about the general structural character of Papua New Guinea languages, l although relat ively few of these have been studied and des cribed in any detail. Whatever studies have been made have focused on the phonology, morphology/syntax of...
Draft, 1977. — 87 p. The Orokaiva language is spoken by about twenty-five thousand people living around Popondetta in the Norhtern Province of Papua New Guinea. The numerous closely related dialects that make up the Orokaiva language are in an area bordered roughly by the Hydrographer Mountains on the South, the Kumusi River on the North, the Ewage-Notu language on the East...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1965. — xi + 224 p.
This book is based on linguistic material collected during fieldwork in the Sepik District, Territory of New Guinea, during the period May 1959 to March 1960.
The plan of this work should be apparent from the table of contents. In the first section, an outline...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1973. — 134 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 25). This paper presents the first overall view of the languages of the Sepik, and represents the results to date of the author's work on Sepik languages from 1959 to 1972. For the purposes of this paper, the area 'Sepik' is taken as being the area in the...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1993. — 168 p. This grammar describes the structure of Kube (which is also called as Mongi by the speakers), a Papuan language spoken by some 7,500 people living in the mountain ranges around the Kube river in the northern portion of the Morobe province, Papua New Guinea. Kube is classified by as a member of the Eastern Huon family of languages.
SIL-PNG, 1985. — 122 p. — ISBN 9980-0-0156-9. Identification. "Orokaiva" is the name for a number of culturally similar tribes in Papua New Guinea who speak mutually intelligible dialects. Although the tribes did not have an inclusive name for themselves until "Orokaiva" was introduced by Westerners, they generally distinguished among themselves as the river people ( umo-ke ),...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 618 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 666). This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 618 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 666). This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with...
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2002. — xix + 242 p. This thesis describes certain areas in the grammar of the little-known Kuot language, spoken by some 1,500 people in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Kuot is an isolate, and is the only non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of that province. The analyses presented here are based on original data from 18...
Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: SIL-PNG Academic Publications. 2011. — xii + 483 p. — (Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, 57).
Abau is a Sepik language spoken in the Sandaun (formerly West Sepik) Province of Papua New Guinea, primarily along the shores of the Sepik River.
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1980. — 101 p. This is a grammar of Namo Me, which translated means, "true-essence language." It is a member of the West Kutubuan Family, possibly related to the greater Trans-New Guinea Phlum of languages.
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2007. — iii + 37 p. Kasua is a Papuan language spoken by approximately 600 people living in 7 villages in a region just south of the area called “The Great Papuan Plateau.” Kasua is a member of the Bosavi Family, part of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum. The two most closely related languages to Kasua are Kaluli and Aimele. Kasua has no dialects.
The University of Melbourne, 2009. — 548 p. This thesis describes the features of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Oksapmin, a Papuan (Non-Austronesian) language of Papua New Guinea. Oksapmin is spoken by around 8000 people, most of whom reside in the Tekin valley in Sandaun Province. The analysis in this thesis is based on the study of data from both elicitation and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 222 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 100). This study is based upon a M.A. Linguistics thesis written by the author at The University of Texas at Arlington. This revision and update represents a continuing investigation of the Una language. As such it is still only the beginning of fully...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. — 398 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 6). Tauya (also Inafosa) is a Rai Coast language spoken in the Ramu River valley, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 350 people. This book is an excellent introduction to New Guinea grammar for anyone who, like myself, is unfamiliar with the languages of this area of the world. In addition to...
SIL International, 2013. — 101 р.
In October of 2009 SIL conducted a survey of the Amio-Gelimi language, located in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. Amio-Gelimi is listed as Lesing-Gelimi [let] in the sixteenth edition of the Ethnologue and belongs to the East Arawe subgroup of Austronesian languages. The goals of the survey were to determine language and dialect...
University of Newcastle, 2024. — 477 p. ‘Verbal categories’ are defined as grammatical categories expressed either by the verb, verbal morphology, or other parts of speech that modify verbs. These may include tense, aspect and mood (TAM), negation, evidentiality, valence and voice, participant reference, sequence marking, serial verb constructions (SVCs), and incorporation....
Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1974. — 162 p. Auyana-Kosena is spoken by 6,500 people of the Eastern Highlands District of Papua New Guinea. It is a member of the Gadsup-Auyana-Awa-Tairora language family. The data used in this paper is from the Kosena dialect.
La Trobe University, 2023. — 184 p. Set within a sociolinguistic framework, this empirical study of language choice of the Qaqet Baining of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, is the first of its kind on a Baining community. The project provides a starting point for future sociolinguistic inquiry into Baining languages and contributes to scholarly discussion on language shift...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1972. — vi + 116 p. ISBN: 0858830868.
The Selepet people live on the northern slopes of the Saruwaged Mountains in the Morobe District, Papua New Guinea. This present paper represents a slight revision of chapters 4-7 of the writer's unpublished thesis "The Selepet Language within...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1970. — 130 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 16). From the nineteenth century onwards it has been known that the number of languages in the New Guinea area was multitudinous. The most recent estimates (Wurm and Laycock, 1961; Wurm, 1970) place this number in excess of 1,000, of which approximately 700...
Canberra: Australian National University, 1973. — 94 p. — (Pacific Linguistics B 22). The non-Austronesian Finisterre-Huon languages are spoken by the inhabitants of the Finisterre and Saruwaged mountain ranges in the south-eastern portion of the Madang District and the northern portion of the Morobe District, New Guinea (see map). Preliminary lexical studies utilizing basic...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 164 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 42). The materials presented here were written over a number of years by Donald E. McGregor, a missionary in Lumi (West Sepik) with the Christian Missions in Many Lands (CMML), and his wife Aileen. The McGregors became fluent in the Olo language during their...
In Namia and Amanab grammar essentials, John R. Roberts (ed.). pages 99-173. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 39. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Amanab is a Border (or Upper Tami) language spoken in Sandaun province, northwestern Papua New-Guinea.
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2009. — xi + 138 p. Iyo is spoken by roughly 6,900 speakers living in an area straddling the main east-west ridgeline of the Finisterre Mountains in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is a Papuan language of the Trans-New Guinea family belonging to the Finisterre-Huon subfamily, being included in the Gusap-Mot subgroup. Iyo is agglutinative...
Department of Linguistics University of Sidney, 2005. — 411 p. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Barapu, the easternmost member of the Skou family of languages. Barapu is spoken by around 3000 people on the north coast of New Guinea; its grammar has not previously been described. Barapu is a tone language in which words belong to one of five tone classes and it...
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1974. — xvi, 443 p. Morphophonemics. Stems. Words. Phrases. Clauses. Deep and surface structures of Daga sentences. Paragraphs. Discourses. Texts.
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1968. — 178 p. ISBN: 0858830620.
This grammar is a pedagogical one, its aim being to present the grammatical structure in such a way as to facilitate rapid speaking ability in the dialect.
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 356 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 540). — ISBN: 0-858883-531-2. Bilua is the language spoken on Velia La Velia island in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. According to the census conducted in 1976 (Solomon Islands Statistics Division 1980), there are about 85 vernacular languages...
Unpublished Draft, 2000. — 40 p. Borong (former Kosorong) is a typical Papuan SOV language belonging to the Eastern Huon language family of the Finsterre-Huon Stock of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum. Its grammar is almost identical with the neighbouring Somba Siawari, that belongs to the Western Huon Language Family.
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. — 603 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 87). — ISBN 9783110725551. This grammar provides the first modern, comprehensive description of Coastal Marind. It is a Papuan language spoken by the coastal-dwelling Marind-Anim, formerly expansionistic head-hunters of the Southern New Guinea lowlands. Like the other languages of the poorly known Anim...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 608 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 87). This grammar provides the first modern, comprehensive description of Coastal Marind. It is a Papuan language spoken by the coastal-dwelling Marind-Anim, formerly expansionistic head-hunters of the Southern New Guinea lowlands. Like the other languages of the poorly known Anim family, Coastal Marind features...
Australian National University, 1994. — 585 p.
This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Motuna, aNon-Austronesian language spoken by several thousand people in the south-westem part of Bougainville (called Siwai), Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Buin Family of the Eastern Bougainville stock, in the Bougainville Phylum. This grammar is based on the analysis of narrative texts...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2002. — 523 p. — (Asian and African Lexicon 41). Motuna is a Papuan language spoken in Siwai (Siuai in Motuna), the southwestern part of the Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. Bougainville, with its surrounding islands, is comprised of thirteen Austronesian and eight Papuan (or Non-Austronesian) languages....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — XXVI + 1020 p. — (The World of Linguistics Vol. 4). — e-ISBN: (PDF) 978-3-11-029525-2. A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world -...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 1036 p. — (The World of Linguistics 4). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 1036 p. — (The World of Linguistics 4). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2005. — 843 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 572). This book is an inter-disciplinary exploration of the history of humans in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands, which make up the biogeographic and cultural region that is coming to be known as Near Oceania, with particular...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 427 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 514). Tom Dutton: linguist - Andrew Pawley T.E. Dutton: a personal bibliography - Lois Carrington Reduplicated colour terms in Oceanic languages - Robert A. Blust Iwal grammar essentials, with comparative notes - Joel Bradshaw Proto Melanesian plant names...
The University of Auckland, 1966. — 219 p. Karam is spoken in the Bismarck-Schrader Ranges on the northern border of the Western Highlands District of Australian New Guinea. Karam speakers, numbering some 10,000 to 14,000, occupy several valleys both on the Ramu and the Jimi falls of these ranges. On the Ramu fall they occuPY the AiomeRamu slopes, the Asai Valley, and the Upper...
Papua New Guinea: SIL, 2009 (original typescript 1970). — 82 p. The Kamano language is spoken in the Kainantu and Henganofi sub-districts of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea. The people number appoximately 47,000. They are bounded by the Gadsup, Agarabi, Usarufa, Kanite, Bena Bena, Yagari and Abaga peoples. The language belongs to the East Central Family, East New Guinea...
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1964. — 192 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 10). Awa verbs part I: The internal structure of independent verbs - Loving, Richard and Howard P. McKaughan Awa verbs part II: The internal structure of dependent verbs - Loving, Aretta and Howard P. McKaughan The...
SIL International, 2013. — 220 p. This thesis presents a phonological description of Ma Manda (ISO 639-3: skc), a Finisterre-Huon language of the Trans-New Guinea family. This is accomplished through a sketch of the segmental phonology, syllable structure and phonotactics, suprasegmental features, and morphophonemic alternations. In addition to documenting the phonological...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1976. — x + 175 p. The Wahgi language is spoken by approximately 45,000 people who dwell in and around the region of the Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands of New Guinea.
Unpublished Draft, 2016. — 73 p. This grammar is very tentative. The data was collected, processed and written up very quickly and does not deal with all aspects of Gadsup grammar. There may well be errors due to the time pressure in producing this document, as well as some unfinished portions and inconsistencies in the analysis. Despite its tentative nature, we hope that this...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 538 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 658). This book is a grammatical description of Koromu (or Kesawai), an endangered and previously undescribed language in Papua New Guinea's Ramu Valley. Koromu belongs to the Madang subgroup of the putative Trans New Guinea family. The grammar covers the structures of the language, with an emphasis on information...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2011. — 283 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 629). This volume consists of revised versions of the authors’ University of North Dakota MA theses. Part 1, Awara Phonology, describes the Awara phonemic inventory, autosegmental features, morphophonemic processes such as devoicing of consonants intervocalically and...
Port Moresby, Papua. Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1931. — 173 p.
The grammar here presented is based upon notes and paradigms supplied to me by Mr. Riley or evolved in the course of our correspondence, with examples drawn from the Scriptures or from Folk tales written by natives. Though the material was supplied by Mr. Riley, he left to me the arrangement and...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002 — viii + 340 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 524). — ISBN 0858834944. This book is the first detailed introduction to languages of the Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Irian Jaya (Papua) province. Detailed data on these languages have only become available in the last decade, and the papers in this...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,1999. — xv + 215 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 146). — ISBN 0858834979. Hatam is spoken by approximately 16,000 people living in the Arfak mountains, south of Manokwari in the Bird's Head area of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. According to Griffiths (1994 and personal communication), the language...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987. — 387 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 13). Usan is a Papuan language. In this monograph on the grammatical structures of Usan and their function the author shows the unique features of this language: how speakers can exploit certain principles for communicative purposes, how the language reflects their physical environment....
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1975. — xiii + 235 p. ISBN: 0858831309.
Yagaria is a Papuan language of the Central Highlands of New Guinea. It belongs to the Kamano-Yagaria-Keiagana subfamily of the East Central Family of the East New Guinea Highlands Stock which in turn belongs to the Trans-New Guinea Phylum...
[Dallas, Texas, USA]: SIL International, 2016. — v + 434. Amele is a Papuan language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Amele people inhabit an area of approximately 120 square kilometres between the Gum and Gogol rivers just south of the town of Madang in PNG. The area extends from the coast to about 14 kilometres inland. Amele is the largest of the Gum...
Pacific Linguistics, 1978. — 144 p. Waskia (Vaskia, Woskia) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken on half of Karkar Island, and a small part of the shore on the mainland. It belongs to the Kowan family of languages.
Publication date: 1994
Number of pages: 101
Kamula is a Papuan Language of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. Wurm (1981) classifies Kamula as a family level isolate of the Central and South New Guinea stock and superstock of the Trans New Guinea Phylum. Shaw (1986) proposes that Kamula be placed in the Bosavi family and in the Bosavi Watershed subfamily. Lexically and...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1975. — 36 p. This phrasebook is designed to be used by the 8,000 speakers of the Iatmul language. It is written in the Nyawla dialect but could also be used by speakers of the Palimbei dialect. Iatmul is spoken in the Ambunti, Maprik, and Angoram Sub-Districts of the East Sepik District, Papua New Guinea.
1994. — 108 p. This grammar is a description of Wand Tuan (Kamasau), a Papuan language spoken in the East Sepik Province by about 700 people. Wand Tuan is part of the Marienberg stock-level family of the Torricelli Phylum. This description is hierarchical, beginning with morphology and word structure and proceeding through phrases and clauses. I view language as a functional,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. — xxii, 629 p. — (Mainland and Insular South East Asia / Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages 4). A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterre-Huon Papuan language spoken by about 1,000 people in the Saruwaged Mountains,...
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2022. — xiv + 305 p. This volume contains three distinct contributions to the study of Kope, a northeast Kiwaian language, spoken in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea, written by two authors. Hanna Schulz writes about Kope verbal morphology, while Robert Petterson adds to our understanding of Kope narrative discourse and Kope tone,...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1978. — xv + 210 p. ISBN: 0858831732.
Fore is a non-Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It is a member of the East New Guinea Highlands Stock, which in turn is part of the large Trans-New Guinea Phylum covering the major portion of both population and area of Papua New...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1973. — 108 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 23). Edited by Robert E. Longacre Fore is spoken by approximately 12,000 speakers in the Eastern Highlands District of New Guinea, with Okapa as their government centre. There are at least two dialects of Fore, north and south. This paper is based on the...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Dept. of Linguistics, 1985. — 236 р. — (Pacific linguistics: Series B 93) Imonda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It has a simple consonant system and a complex vowel system, with no phonological tones. Imonda is heavily verb oriented, and does not mark nouns for number or gender, but...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 370 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 668). Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member of the Nambu subgroup of the Yam family of languages (also known as the Morehead-Upper Maro family). This grammar is the first published comprehensive description of a language in this subgroup....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 370 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 668). Nama is a Papuan language spoken by around 1200 people in the Morehead district of southern New Guinea. It is a member of the Nambu subgroup of the Yam family of languages (also known as the Morehead-Upper Maro family). This grammar is the first published comprehensive description of a language in this subgroup....
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2011. — xvi + 466 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 625/Studies in language change 9). Relatively little historical-comparative work has been done on the languages of the vast Trans New Guinea family, and this book breaks new ground with a study of the Binanderean languages of the Morobe and Oro Provinces of southeast mainland...
Draft. — 108 p. Notes on Mianmin Grammar were written after approximately 15 months spent in the village of Sokabib near the Southern border of the Mianmin language area. Analysis was incomplete and tentative at the stage of writing. Much of the analysis was done during linguistics workshops at Ukarumpa in June and October, 1971.
Universitas Cenderawasih - Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1986. - 150 pp. This book is the second volume on the Berik language. It is a thesaurus of about 2,500 lexical items arranged under 14 broad conceptual categories and more than 100 subcategories. The broad categories are ordered, starting with nature, going to man, his work, his culture, and finally his language....
Ukarumpa: SIL, 1979. — 386 p. The Komba language is spoken by approximately twelve thousand whose home area is the south easter division of the Kabwum District, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The Komba language belongs to the Western Huon family. This paper is a tagmemic sketch of the grammar of the Komba language. The grammatical levels are presentend in ascending order...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1994. — vii + 259 p. This is a description of the phonology and grammar of the Nankina language. The grammatical analysis is based on field work done from January 1981 to November 1983 and from April 1985 to January 1987. The Nankina language is spoken in the south-east corner of the Madang Province. There are about 2200 speakers living in 10...
SIL International, 2007. — 162 p. This book investigates the phenomena that influence the choice of referential form in Olo narratives. Olo is a language of Papua New Guinea. The investigation is a text-based, quantitative examination which compares the adequacy of different models of referential management. This work uses insights from cognitive studies involving the mental...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1980. — viii + 35 p. Rao is a Ramu language spoken by around 6000 people in an area of north eastern New Guinea along the Ramu and Keram Rivers.
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2011. — xxi + 415 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 623). Mali is a Papuan language spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province Papua New Guinea. It is a member of the Baining language family. The family is comprised of five languages: Kaket, Mali, Simbali, Ura and Kairak. Baining people share a common...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 294 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 606). This collection of twenty Mali texts was recorded in 2001 and 2002 and were transcribed and translated by Tonya Stebbins and Julius Tayul. The texts are a representative sample of the materials used as a corpus in the development of the Mali (Baining)...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 250 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 53/Materials in languages of Indonesia 19). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
Pacific Linguistics. A-63. Papers in New Guinea Linguistics. No. 22. 1985. — 53-130. Moi is a West Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea.
Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1976. — 149 p. This paper describes the grammatical hierarchy from Word to Discourse in the Ek Nii language. The Nii language belongs to the Hagen language family of the Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 8,500 speakers of the Nii language occupying ana area of about 15 miles, starting at...
Stockholms Universitet, 2013. — 40 p. The present study analyzes a selection of topics in the grammar of Nalca (Mek language; Papua), with a focus on verbs and nominals. No published grammar or dictionary is available for Nalca, but a translation of the New Testament was used as a parallel text. The results showed that Nalca is split ergative, strongly suffixing and agglutinating,...
2006. — 309 p.
The Dom language is spoken over a continuous territory in the Dom area in the Gumine District and in a part of the Sinasina District of the Simbu Province (formerly called Chimbu) in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The language is mainly spoken in this area, but also in some settlements in towns and cities, and some enclaves also exist in different areas.
The...
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2015. — xiv + 299 p. — ISBN: 9980039906. This study is written based on data collected over a period of about eight years of on-and-off fieldwork, mostly in the Nukna village of Hamelengan, under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. This description is based mainly on written texts, oral recorded texts, and, to a lesser extent,...
Australian National University, 1999. — 512 p.
The thesis is in five major parts. The first part, Preliminaries, deals with the basic building blocks on which the grammar is founded; the introductory chapter, the phonology and the word classes.
The second part of the thesis deals with arguments and adjuncts. Chapter 4 outlines Noun Phrase structure and the structure of...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 588 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 30). Lavukaleve is a Papuan Language spoken on the Russell Islands in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands. The phonology and morpho-phonology of Lavukaleve are described, as well as arguments adjuncts, the Lavukaleve predicate structure (including predicate types and core participant marking,...
A language isolate spken on the east end of New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. 103 p., Part 2 of: Two non-Austronesian grammars from the islands. John M. Clifton (ed.) 1996. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages 42. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. iv
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 116 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 83). Anêm is a language isolate spoken in five main villages along the northwestern coast of New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. In the village Atiatu it is spoken alongside Lusi, an Austronesian (West Oceanic) language. Standard Austronesian Typology Anêm...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 110 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 82). Discourse is made up of paragraphs, sentences, and clauses, but these can be understood only when they are considered in terms of the parts they play within the larger units to which each belongs. Discourse is not formed by randomly joining sentences....
SIL - PNG, 1991. — 223 p. The Karo/Rawa language is a Papuan Language in the Gusap/Mot language family, located on both the northern and southern slopes of the Finnisterre Mountains in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea. The Rawa speakers are located on the Ramu Valley side of the Finisterres. Their villages vary from 3,500 feet to 7,000 feet in elevation; and the Karo...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1969. — 110 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 13). Dr Stephen Wurm in a series of articles which he has written on the East New Guine a Highlands language phylum states that the Pawaian language of the Gulf and Eastern Highlands Districts is remotely related to it. He has based his conclusion on a 3-5 per...
La Trobe University, 2023. — 887 p. The people who speak the Pamosu language live on the crest of the Adelbert Range in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Their villages are located on narrow mountain ridges, at the altitude where clouds form as moisture-laden winds move inland from the sea. Since arable land is difficult to find, their crops grow on steep slopes, which may be...
Asia-Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2016. — xii + 840 p. The Aghu language is one of the Awyu-Dumut languages, and is spoken in Southwest New Guinea, on the Indonesian half of the island, along the upper part of the 525-kilometer long Digul river. This book is an adaptation of Drabbe’s 1957 "Spraakkunst van het Aghu-dialect van de Awjutaal", and makes the...
S-Gravenhage - Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. — vii + 195 p. The present description of Dani morphology deals with the language spoken approximately in the centre of the Balim Valley around Wamena
Australian National University, 2023. — 610 p. This is a grammar of Suki, a Trans New Guinea language spoken by approximately 7500 people living in and around a lagoon, close to the Fly River, in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea. The data for this grammar was collected during 18 months of fieldwork. Suki has a rich verb morphology. It inflects for up to three arguments...
A comprehensive study of the verb forms of the Angguruk dialect of Middle Yali (of the Dani family of languages). It presents the conjugation of the verb in Yali, lsiting its 10 different conjugation groups plus the irregular verbs. It also presents the participles and other nominal forms. 83 pages
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2003. — 147 p.
This Tairora Dialect Survey is in three sections: Section One: Introduction and word lists (95 pages), Section Two: Tairora Dialect Constructions with Examples (24 Pages), and Section Three: Tairora Dialect Verb Paradigms and Pronouns (43 Pages).
The data in this paper was collected from 1957 to 2003. The author was unable to...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. — xx, 548 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 4; ISSN 2749-7798). — ISBN 978-3-96110-343-0. This book is a grammar of Kalamang, a Papuan language of western New Guinea in the east of Indonesia. It is spoken by around 130 people in the villages Mas and Antalisa on the biggest of the Karas Islands, which lie just off the coast of Bomberai...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 156 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 46/Materials in languages of Indonesia 12). One of the linguistically least known parts of the Moluccas, Indonesia, is the southern peninsula of Halmahera and the offshore islands to the west: Bacan, Kayoa, Makian. Until recently all that was known of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 144 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 31). In 1973, two language checklists saw the light in the series B of Pacific Linguistics: T.E. Dutton's checklist of languages and present day villages of central and south-east mainland Papua (PL, B.24 ), and D.C. Laycock's checklist and preliminary...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980. — 188 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 64). According to the most recent classification of the languages of Irian Jaya ( Voorhoeve 1975) we find in the eastern part of the Bomberai Peninsula and in the south-western lowlands the Asmat-Kamoro Family with four member languages: Iria-Asienara, Kamoro,...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965. — xi + 367 p. The language of the Asmat is one of a number of related Papuan languages which are spoken over an extensive area of the coastal plain of south-west New Guinea. The following description of the language is the result of an investigation into the coastal dialect around Flamingo Bay which was carried out from November 1960 to September...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1997. — 99 p. The Bimin Language is spoken by a population of approximately 2,000 speakers. About half of them are living in the main valley of this language group, which is situated in the very South-East of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. It is classified as a language of the Trans New Guinea Phylum, Ok Family, Mountain Ok Sub-Family....
De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 400 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 61). — ISBN10 3110289474. ISBN13 978-3110289473. This is the first comprehensive description of Savosavo, a non-Austronesian (Papuan) language spoken by approximately 2,500 speakers on Savo Island, Solomon Islands. Based on primary field data recorded by the author, it provides an overview of all levels of grammar. In...
Wageningen: Ponsen & Looijen bv, 2008. - 400 p.
Savosavo is one of four Papuan (i.e., non-Austronesian) languages spoken in the Solomon Islands, part of a region called Island Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. Savosavo is spoken on Savo Island, a small volcanic island with a diameter of about 6 km, about 35 km from the capital Honiara. In 1999 Savo Island was home to 2,549...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1979. — 218 p. ISBN: 0858831813.
This is a description of the grammar of Siroi, a Papuan language spoken by approximately 700 people living on the Rai Coast in five villages between the Guabe and Male Rivers in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea. The grammar presented in this...
Arlington: University of Texas, 1993. — 207 p. (masters thesis) This monograph presents a description of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Hanga Hundi, a Papuan language of the East Sepik province of Papua New Guinea. While the primary purpose of the monograph is to provide a description of the language rather than an evaluation of theoretical issues, the description...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1973. — 202 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 28). Wojokeso is a dialect of the Ampale language of the Anga language stock. This language is referred to by B.A. Hooley and K.A. McElhanon in 'Languages of the Morobe District - New Guinea', 1968 to be published in Pacific Linguistics - Series C. The...
Irian: Bulletin of Irian Jaya, 1988. — 49 p.
The Berik language is spoken by about 1,000 people living in five villages along the banks of the Tor River in the Jayapura regency, in the province of Irian Jaya (Western New Guinea). Berik, the largest among the Upper Tor languages, is the "lingua franca" for smaller language groups in the area.
The objective of this paper is to...
Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2004. — IX, 265 p.
This thesis presents the morphology and much of the syntax of Menya, which is a Papuan language spoken in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. It is the second most populous of at least twelve languages that constitute the Angan language family, which is, in turn, considered to be a stock-level isolate of the Trans-New...
Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1991. — iv + 159 p. The language of the people who call themselves Akoye is spoken by approximately 800 people, most of whom live in the Albert Mountains southwest of Kanabea in Papua New Guinea. Akoye is the southwesternmost member of the Angan stock-level family in the Trans-New Guinea Phylum of non-Austronesian languages. This paper is...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1974. — 169 p. The Suena language is spoken by approximately 1,600 people living along the coast in the Morobe District of New Guinea. It is the northern-most member of the Binandere language family. Data for this paper were compiled over a seven year period while the author was living in the village of Bosadi.
Publisher: SIL - Ukarumpa - Papua New Guinea
Date: 1980
Number of pages: 473
A word in Ambulas is a construction in the grammatical hierarchy between stem level and phrase level. The word is composed of a single morpheme or of a stem (simple, compound or derived) and a limited number of affixes. The word is a "minimum free form", that is, the smallest unit which can be...
SIL Papua New Guinea. — 29 p. A short survey of the major dialects of the Ambulas (also written Abulas, Ndu language family) language. Includes phonological, grammatical and lexical comparisons.
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1997. — 183 p. — (Materials on Languages in Danger of Disappearing in the Asia-Pacific Region No.1).
The present volume consists of papers on three endangered languages in Papua New Guinea: Kaki Ae (Unclassified, proposed links to Eleman), Musom and Aribwatsa (both Austronesian,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1964. — 100 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 2). Phonological Materials and Minimax Systems Indices of Phonological Diversification ( IPDs ) Weighted Indices of Phonological Diversification ( wIPDs ) Averages of Weighted Indices Treatment of Special Cases General Results and Conclusions
The Australian National University, 1971. — 84 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 18). This statement is a description of the structure of the verb in Bena-bena, a language of the Eastern Highlands District of the Territory of New Guinea. Bena-bena is a language spoken by approximately 14,000 people living in the Goroka sub-district of the Eastern Highlands administrative...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1980. — xii + 184 p. ISBN: 085883233X
The Mabuso languages are located south and south-west of Madang on the north-east coast of New Guinea. This volume presents in comparative tables a list of around 300 words for further research and evaluation.
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1980. — xiii + 178 p. ISBN: 0858832283 The Northern Adelbert Range languages are located in the north-central part of the Madang Province (Papua New Guinea) between Cape Croisilles and about 15 miles from Bogia, and they extend across the Adelbert Range into the southern slopes....
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1980. — xii + 181 p. ISBN: 0858832321 The Rai Coast languages are located in the central part of the Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, extending from the Astrolabe Bay area south towards the Ramu River and east towards Saidor town. This present volume presents comparative tables...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1980. — xiii + 97 p. ISBN: 0858832348 The Southern Adelbert Range languages are located south of the central Adelbert Range in the south-central part of the Madang Province. This present volume presents comparative tables of a list of around 300 words for further research and...
The Australian National University, 1971. — 196 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 19). There are two types of languages in the Western Madang District. The great majority of the languages are Papuan (or non-Melanesian, i.e. non-Austronesian), but there are several Melanesian (i.e. Austronesian) languages in the immediate coastal area. Most of the Papuan languages of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 162 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 41). The Madang District comprises the coastal area of northern Papua New Guinea from the mouth of the Ramu River to a point about twenty miles east of Saidor, and extends south-west to the Bismarck and Schrader Ranges. It also includes the large off-shore...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2016. — 336 p. Konai (or Kalai) is a Papuan language, which belongs to the East Strickland Subgroup of the Trans-New Guinea Family. This grammar covers the structure of the Konai language from phoneme to discourse and is based on the 'Konai Grammar Essentials' (Årsjö 1998), which has been thoroughly revised and expanded. The areas where most new...
Москва: 1974. — 116 с. Впервые в отечественном языкознании написана обобщающая работа по малоисследованным языкам "папуасской группы". В ней кроме общих сведений о языках Новой Гвинеи и близлежащих островов (Бугенвиль, Британские Соломоновы Острова и др.) даны тексты с переводом и грамматическим комментарием, приложены избранная библиография и карта распространения папуасских...
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