Huon Gulf languages
| Huon Gulf | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Northern New Guinea |
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| Glottolog: | huon1245[1] |
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
According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:[2]
- North Huon Gulf linkage
- Markham family
- South Huon Gulf linkage
- Numbami
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Huon Gulf". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.
- Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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