https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-04-29T04:30:09+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/tua-river/dadibi-folopa/dadibi?rev=1719337266&do=diff Dadibi Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Dadibi is spoken by 5,000 to 6,000 people (1974) living around the Karimui Plateau in Papua New Guinea's Simbu district and in three villages on the Erave River in Southern Highlands province. It may be divided into Karimui Plateau and Erave River dialects (MacDonald 1973: 114-116, Mac Donald and Mac Donald 1974: 129-130.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/tua-river/dadibi-folopa/folopa?rev=1719337266&do=diff Folopa Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Folopa is spoken by 2,500 people (2010) living in perhaps 17 villages west of Lake Tebera and east of Mount Murray, between the Erave River to the north and the headwaters of the Sirebi River and the Sireru River to the south, in the Kagua and Kikori subdistricts of Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands and Gulf provinces. Its closest relative is Dadibi to the northeast, with the more distantly related Pawaia and Witu spoken to the east and n… text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/papuan-gulf/tua-river/dadibi-folopa/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Dadibi-Folopa Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation The Dadibi-Folopa family is comprised of at least two languages spoken around the intersection of Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands, Gulf and Simbu provinces (MacDonald 1973: CITE.) Dadibi and Folopa are different enough from one another to be considered separate families, while Folopa dialects are probably diverse enough to be considered a family of several closely-related languages.