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Arapesh languages
Group of Torricelli languages of Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Arapesh languages are several closely related Torricelli languages of the 32,000 Arapesh people of Papua New Guinea. They are spoken in eastern Sandaun Province and northern East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
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Ethnicity | Arapesh people |
Geographic distribution | eastern Sandaun Province and northern East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Torricelli
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Glottolog | arap1279 |
![]() The Torricelli languages as classified by Foley (2018) |
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The Arapesh languages are among the better-studied of Papuan languages and are most distinctive in their gender systems, which contain up to thirteen genders (noun classes) with noun-phrase concordance. Mufian, for example, has 17 noun classes for count nouns plus two extra noun classes, i.e. proper names and place names.[1] (See that article for examples.)