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North New Guinea languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
Northern New Guinea

Glottolog:
  
nort3206

Linguistic classification:
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea

Subdivisions:
  
? Sarmi–Jayapura family Schouten linkage Huon Gulf family Ngero–Vitiaz linkage

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:

  • ? Sarmi–Jayapura family
  • Schouten linkage
  • Huon Gulf family
  • Ngero–Vitiaz linkage

    • 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

    North New Guinea languages Wikipedia
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