Newguineaworld - families:trans-new-guinea https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-05-14T18:34:24+00:00 Newguineaworld 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) Abom https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/abom?rev=1719337266&do=diff Abom Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Abom is spoken in several villages south of the head of the Fly River delta in Papua New Guinea's Western Province. The original Abom village was located northeast of Tewara village, but the community disbanded, reportedly due to sorcery, and moved to Tewara, Lewada and Mutam villages, in which the Biruti, Makayam and Wipi languages are spoken respectively. Only the older generations speak Abom, middle generations understand but do not use it a… text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) Oksap https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/oksap?rev=1719337266&do=diff Oksap Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Oksap, or Oksapmin, is spoken by approximately 12,000 people (2005) living in the the Tekin valley in the Oksapmin subdistrict of Papua New Guinea's Sandaun Province. Speakers call their language Nuxule Meng /nuxule meŋ/ meaning text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) Siumuri https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/siumuri?rev=1719337266&do=diff Siumuri text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) Trans New Guinea https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Trans New Guinea Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute The Trans New Guinea family was proposed by McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970,) and has since been broadly accepted, though its evidentiary basis had never been well-defined. A number of disparate lines of reasoning have been used over the years to include or disinclude particular language families in Trans-New Guinea, resulting in opacity and confusion.