Subdivisions BukawaYabemKela | Glottolog nort2858 | |
Linguistic classification AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicWestern OceanicNorth New GuineaHuon GulfNorth Huon Gulf | ||
The family of North Huon Gulf languages is a subgroup of the Huon Gulf languages of Papua New Guinea. It consists of 3 languages, 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).
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