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Oceanic language group of Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The family of North Huon Gulf languages is a subgroup of the Huon Gulf languages of Papua New Guinea.
North Huon Gulf | |
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Geographic distribution | Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea |
Linguistic classification | Austronesian |
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Glottolog | nort2858 |
It consists of three languages, all of which are distinguished by severe truncation of many inherited roots and the compensatory development of suprasegmentals on vowels: phonemic tone in Yabem and Bukawa (Ross 1993) and nasalization in Kela (Johnson 1994).
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