Directory of Trans-New Guinea Resources

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This category is for information on languages belonging to the trans-New Guinea phylum of Papuan languages. This is the largest and most widely recognized grouping of Papuan languages. These languages are located primarily along he central mountain ranges of the island of New Guinea.

Resources in This Category

• Awara Phonology

  http://www.und.edu/dept/linguistics/theses/2003QuigleyE.htm
  Full text of a masters thesis by Edward C. Quigley on the Awara verbal system.

• Negation in Mauwake, a Papuan Language

  http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/julkaisut/SKY2006_1/1.4.2.%20BERGHALL.pdf
  Full text of a book chapter by Liisa Berghäll.

• Organised Phonology Data: Alekano (Gahuku)

  http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/0000029/alekano_opd.pdf
  A document on the phonology of the Gahuku language.

• The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Sam People

  http://www.sil.org/silesr/2003/silesr2003-019.pdf
  A sociolinguistic survey of the Sam People on the Rai Coast of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, including ethnolinguistic identity, language and dialect boundaries, and language vitality.

 

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