North New Guinea languages

North New Guinea
Geographic
distribution:
Northern New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: nort3206[1]

The North New Guinea languages of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia form a possible linkage of Western Oceanic languages.

Classification

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:

The center of dispersal was evidently near the Vitiaz Strait between New Britain and the New Guinea mainland.

The inclusion of Sarmi and Jayapura Bay is uncertain, and it may constitute a separate branch of Western Oceanic.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "North New Guinea linkage". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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