https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-08-17T12:04:46+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/eastern-highlands-kratke-range/eastern-highlands/kainantu/east-kainantu/afaqina?rev=1719337266&do=diff Afaqina Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Afaqina (/ɐɸɐʔinɐ/) as it's called by its speakers, or Binumarien as it's known in the academic literature, is spoken by 117 people (1973) living in three villages in the far northeast portion of Kainantu subdistrict of Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highlands province, just west of the border with Morobe Province. The term Binumarien refers to a now-abandoned village which was called Pinumaarénai. The Afaqina population was decimated by exposur… text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/eastern-highlands-kratke-range/eastern-highlands/kainantu/east-kainantu/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff East Kainantu Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation The East Kainantu family is comprised of perhaps five languages spoken in the Kainantu and Okapa subdistricts of Papua New Guinea's Eastern Highland's province and in the Kaiapit subdistrict of Morobe province, just west of the Markham river valley and south of the Markham-Ramu divide. text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/eastern-highlands-kratke-range/eastern-highlands/kainantu/east-kainantu/waffa?rev=1719337266&do=diff Waffa Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Waffa is spoken by approximately 1,200 people (1979) living in five villages, Kusing, Tumbuna, Siaga, Aaringun and Urint, in a valley at the headwaters of the Waffa River, a tributary of the Markham, in the Kaiapit subdistrict of Papua New Guinea's Morobe Province. According to Stringer and Hotz, there are two dialects, the central dialect and that spoken by 80 people in Urint village (Stringer and Hotz 1969: 3, Hotz and Stringer 1970: 1, McKa…