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North Huon Gulf languages

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Subdivisions
  
Bukawa Yabem Kela

Glottolog
  
nort2858

Geographic distribution
  
Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea

Linguistic classification
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Huon Gulf North 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).

Languages

  • Yabem
  • Bukawa
  • Kela

    • References

    North Huon Gulf languages Wikipedia
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