Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 2008 Number of pages: 729 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...
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...
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...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015. - 499 p. 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 and the only published grammar of the Kumil...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999. — xii + 236 p. 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, with attention drawn at...
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 the 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.
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, 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...
Publisher: UNUC - Camberra, Australia Publication date: 1981 Number of pages: 438 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...
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...
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...
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 p. — (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.
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...
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
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...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004. — xii + 156 p. 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 district...
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.
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — xi + 446 p. 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 comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of...
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...
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...
Publisher: University of Sydney Publication date: 1999 Number of pages: 76 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...
Publisher: National University of Singapore Publication date: 2004 Number of pages: 220 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...
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 major...
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.
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). — 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...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1986. — vi + 230 p. 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 languages.
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.
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...
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 p. of this...
Publisher: SIL - Pacific Asian Series Publication date: 1974 Number of pages: 297 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...
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.
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.
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...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018 — xxiii, 978 p. 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 accessible via a small collection of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Publication date: 2001 Number of pages: 401 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....
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.
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...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1995. — 117 p. 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...
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...
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...
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...
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).
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...
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.
Publisher: SIL-PNG Publication date: 1985 ISBN: 9980-0-0156-9 Number of pages: 122 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...
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.
Publisher: The University of Melbourne Publication date: 2009 Number of pages: 548 his 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...
SIL International, 2013. — 101 p. 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...
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...
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...
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.
Publisher: Australian National University Publication date: 2003 Number of pages: 356 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 indigenous to the Solomon Islands. The...
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...
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 -...
Publisher: The University of Auckland Publication date: 1966 Number of pages: 219 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...
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.
Publisher: University of North Dakota Publication date: 2002 Number of pages: 143 Awara is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea spoken in the Finisterre Mountain Range. Though it has been mentioned in papers written about the Finisterre-Huon languages and about the Wantoat language (another language in the Wantoat family), the Awara sound system has not been described in...
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...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1999. — xv + 215 p. 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 comprises five dialects:...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2002 — viii + 340 p. 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 volume...
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...
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.
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...
Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1985. — 236 p. — (Pacific linguistics) 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 marks number...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1982. — 116 p. 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 and Lusi Typology Anêm and Lusi Vocabulary...
Publisher: SIL - PNG Publication date: 1991 Number of pages: 223 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...
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...
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
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2003. — 147 p. This Tairora Dialect Survey is in three sections: Section One: Introduction and word lists (95 p.), Section Two: Tairora Dialect Constructions with Examples (24 p.), and Section Three: Tairora Dialect Verb Paradigms and Pronouns (43 p.). The data in this paper was collected from 1957 to 2003. The author was unable to visit some of...
Author: René van den Berg, Peter Bachet Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa, EHP Publication date: 2006 Number of pages: 258 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...
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...
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...
Series: Mouton Grammar Library (Book 61). Hardcover: 400 p. Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton (October 1, 2012). Language: English. 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...
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...
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...
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 isolated...
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,...
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...
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...
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