https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-05-22T05:31:03+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/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/asmat/casuarina-coast-asmat?rev=1719337266&do=diff Casuarina Coast Asmat text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/asmat/central-asmat?rev=1719337266&do=diff Central Asmat Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Central Asmat is spoken across a large a portion of New Guinea's southwest coastal and interior lowlands, from the Jac River in the northwest to the Casuarina Coast to the south (q.v. Voorhoeve 1980: viii.) Central Asmat, especially the Kawenak dialect, is the best-documented Asmat language, with Drabbe's (1959)  dictionary and grammar of Kawenak, (1963) survey of three dialects, Voorrhoeve's (1965) Kawenak grammar and dictionary and (… text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/asmat/citak-asmat?rev=1719337266&do=diff Citak Asmat text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/asmat/north-asmat?rev=1719337266&do=diff North Asmat text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/asmat-muli-strait/asmat-kamrau-bay/asmat-kamoro/asmat/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff Asmat Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation The Asmat family consists of three or more languages spoken over a vast area of New Guinea's southwestern coastal lowlands from the Yac (Opa) river in the northwest to the mouth of the Digul river in the southeast and extending inland as much as 70 miles. Its nearest relatives as Sempan and Kamoro along the coast to the northwest (Voorhoeve 1965: 1, 1980: 1-2.) The term Asmat comes from a native word (q.v. Drabbe 1963: 218-219) meaning