Huon Gulf languages

Huon Gulf
Geographic
distribution:
Northern New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: huon1245[1]

The thirty Huon Gulf languages of Papua New Guinea may form a group of the North New Guinea languages, perhaps within the Ngero–Vitiaz branch of that family.

Classification

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:[2]

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Huon Gulf". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.


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