North Huon Gulf languages
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The family of North Huon Gulf languages is a subgroup of the Huon Gulf languages
of Papua New Guinea
. It consists of 3 language
s, 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).
Huon Gulf languages
The thirty Huon Gulf languages of Papua New Guinea may form a group of the North New Guinea languages, perhaps within the Ngero–Vitiaz branch of that family.-Classification:...
of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. It consists of 3 language
Language
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s, 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).
Components
- YabemYabem languageYabem or Jabêm is an Austronesian language spoken natively by about 2000 people at the southern tip of the Huon Peninsula in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea...
- BukawaBukawa languageBukawa is an Austronesian language spoken by about 10,000 people on the coast of the Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea...
- Kela