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	Papuan Languages of New Guinea
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		One Papuan language is spoken in the eastern Torres Straits.
		Although less is known about Papuan languages than about those belonging to the Austronesian and Australian families, linguists have identified a number of distinct genetic groups, referred to as phyla.
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	Papuan languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One Papuan language is spoken in Australia, in the eastern Torres Straits.
		The largest phylum posited for the Papuan region is the Trans-New Guinea phylum, consisting of a large number of languages running mainly along the highlands of New Guinea.
		Several languages of Flores and nearby islands, and especially the language of Savu Island (also called Savu) are usually thought to be Austronesian, but are reported to have large numbers of non-Austronesian words in their basic vocabulary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Papuan_languages (527 words)

	Encyclopedia: Language families and languages
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		The Ainu language (Ainu: ã‚¢ã‚¤ãƒŒ ã‚¤ã‚¿ã‡°, aynu itak; Japanese: ã‚¢ã‚¤ãƒŒèªž, ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		Nivkh or Gilyak (ethnonym: Nivxi) (language, нивхгу - Nivxgu) is a language spoken in Outer Manchuria, in the basin of the Amgun, a tributary of the Amur, along the lower reaches of the Amur and on the northern half of Sakhalin.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Language-families-and-languages (7478 words)

	Papuan languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		group of languages spoken in an area centred upon New Guinea and extending from the islands of Alor, Halmahera, and Timor in the west to the Santa Cruz Archipelago in the east.
		Other languages of this category are Enggano, spoken on a small island of the same name situated off the southwest coast of Sumatra, and a number of Melanesian languages.
		Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of Indonesia, is spoken in the province of Papua,...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9109807?tocId=9109807 (765 words)

	Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Papuan
		Papuan Language Families and Genera · cached · Classification of some of the better-known Papuan languages of Papua-New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the Solomon Islands.
		The West Papuan Phylum Revisited: The Genetic Status of the Yapen Island Languages · cached · An analysis of the relationship between West Papuan Languages on Yapen Island.
		Abakwi · cached · The language of the Ndake of the Mamberamo Basin of Irian Jaya, on the Island of New Guinea.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=1205570 (666 words)

	East Papuan languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		In Papuan (The scientific study of language) linguistics, groups of languages with a genetic relationship, elsewhere referred to as (additional info and facts about language families) language families, are referred to as phyla.
		Konua language (Rapoisi language)- (The largest of the Solomon Islands; a province of Papua New Guinea) Bougainville
		Yelî Dnye language (Yeli language) - Rossel Island, (A parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea) Papua New Guinea
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/east_papuan_languages.htm (824 words)

	Jahrbuch-CD der MPG 2003 - The East Papuan languages: A pr
		The East Papuan languages are thought to be the descendants of the languages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago.
		In particular, we seek to discern similarities between the languages that might call for closer investigation, with a view to establishing genetic relatedness between some or all of the languages.
		In addition, in examining structural relationship between languages, we aim to discover whether it is possible to distinguish between original Papuan elements and diffused Austronesian elements of these languages.
	www.mpg.de /forschungsergebnisse/wissVeroeffentlichungen/archivListenJahrbuch/2002/40/publZIM53.html (226 words)

	Research Projects
		Reconstructing the lexicon of the language ancestral to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, with emphasis on terminologies associated with particular fields.
		The East Papuan Outliers are thought to be the linguistic remnants of the original Papuan populations which came to the area possibly around 40,000 years ago.
		Daniel Martín (School of Language Studies, Australian National University) is the theoretical status of factors affecting language maintenance and shift and implications for the practice of Sociolinguistics.
	crlc.anu.edu.au /research_projects.html (4174 words)

	Science Social Sciences Linguistics Languages Natural Papuan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Abakwi - The language of the Ndake of the Mamberamo Basin of Irian Jaya, on the Island of New Guinea.
		Papuan Language Families and Genera - Classification of some of the better-known Papuan languages of Papua-New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and the Solomon Islands.
		The West Papuan Phylum Revisited: The Genetic Status of the Yapen Island Languages - An analysis of the relationship between West Papuan Languages on Yapen Island.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Papuan (632 words)

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		Sign language interpreters provided in court, for college students, at important public events, in job training, at social services programs, in mental health service programs, some instruction for parents of deaf children, many sign language classes for hearing people.
		The sign language used in the classroom and that used by adults outside is the same.
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	COOL5 abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The East Papuan languages are thought to be the descendants of the languages spoken by the original inhabitants of island Melanesia, who migrated to the area up to 50,000 years ago.
		In examining structural relationships between languages, we aim to discover whether it is possible to distinguish between the original Papuan elements and diffused Austronesian elements of these languages, and to contribute to the understanding of the Papuan substrate in Oceanic.
		Second, a number of languages in higher order subgroups of Proto Polynesian are ergative: the two languages of the Tongic subgroup, several of the unclassified languages branching directly off of the Nuclear Polynesian node, and the majority of the languages in the Ellicean subgroup (subgrouping according to Marck 2000).
	rspas.anu.edu.au /linguistics/ANConfs/5COOL-ABSTRACTS.html (10206 words)

	East Papuan languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The East Papuan Languages were identified as a phylum by linguist S.A. Wurm and others.
		It was originally suggested that these languages form a family, but recent work has thrown doubt on whether all of the East Papuan languages have a genetic relationship.
		Some of the languages of this phylum are:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Ea/East_Papuan_languages.htm (824 words)

	UH Press Journals: Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 1 (2002)
		Age grading of self-reported proficiency in the Pasifika languages indicates the differing degrees to which they are undergoing shift or maintaining their standing.
		The East Papuan languages are thought to be the descendants of the lan-guages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago.
		In particular, we seek to discern similarities between the languages that might call for closer investigation, with a view to establishing genetic relatedness between some or all of the languages.
	www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/ol/OL411.html (1414 words)

	Viewpoint
		Of the 51 languages in the island of New Britain, Makolkol is one of the 10 East Papuan languages, which shares small pockets of speakers with Austronesian speakers.
		* Aribwatsa, an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family was spoken in the lower Wamped River of Bukawa in the Morobe Province.
		In as much as I have so many questions on language extinction I would like to leave one reminder to everyone: Language extinction is a great tragedy for human culture, which we must collectively share the burden to preserve our languages from accelerated extinction.
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	languages - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		The East Papuan languages: a preliminary typological appraisal...This paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to...similarities and differences.
		The East Papuan languages are thought to be the descendants of...
		Mind your languages by Matthew Brace The race is on to save the worlds dying languages, and some researchers have been held at...90 per cent of the existing 6,000-or-so languages will have died out.
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	East Papuan — (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources.
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		Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible.
	www.rosettaproject.org /archive/East_Papuan (184 words)

	Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics - Language and Cognition Group
		The group investigates the relationship between language and general cognition, making use of the “natural laboratory” of language variation.
		Current work examines the relation between language and thought as illuminated by language variation (see Space and Event Representation projects), the neurocognitive bases for spatial distinctions (see Space project), and the relationships between culture, cognition and human social interaction (see Multimodal Interaction project, Gesture Centre).
		Terrill, A., Reesink, G. and Dunn, M. The East Papuan languages: a preliminary typological appraisal.
	www.mpi.nl /world/groups/lcog.html (392 words)

	ClayGate 496-499 : African, North & South American native & Austronesian languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Katherine Munro's Language Teaching Resources : Indonesian
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	Search Results for papuan - Encyclopædia Britannica
		There are more than 700 ethnic groups; these are often separated into two major divisions, Papuan (constituting more than four-fifths of...
		Interrelated language families are grouped in phyla, groups of languages more distantly related than those of a family or stock but more certainly or closely related than those of a macrophylum.
		The islands include (generally from west to east) the island of New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands,...
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	Rotokas — About the Rosetta Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources.
		The LINGUIST List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world.
		Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible.
	preview.rosettaproject.org /archive/east-papuan/oceania/roo (131 words)

	AllRefer.com - East Timor: People (east-timor-adj People) : Population, Sex Ration, Nationality, Religions, ...
		AllRefer.com - East Timor: People (east-timor-adj People) : Population, Sex Ration, Nationality, Religions, Languages, and Ethnic Groups, and more.
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		note: there are about 16 indigenous languages; Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people
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