Papuan Tip languages

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Papuan Tip
Geographic
distribution:
Eastern New Guinea
Linguistic classification: Austronesian
Subdivisions:
  • Nuclear Papuan Tip
  • Sualic
  • North Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux
  • Peripheral Papuan Tip
  • Kilivila–Misima
  • Nimoa–Sudest
  • Central Papuan Tip
Ethnologue code: 17-2190

The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages. All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea), have SOV word order due to influences from nearby Papuan languages (Lynch, Ross, & Crowley 2002:104). Universally, this is considered to be a typologically unusual change.

Languages

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:[1]

Maisin is difficult to classify, but its Austronesian component likely belongs with Nuclear Papuan Tip.

References

  1. Lynch, John; Malcolm Ross; Terry Crowley (2002). The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ISBN 9780700711284. OCLC 48929366. 
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.