Huon Gulf languages

Huon Gulf
Huon Gulf
Geographic; distribution	Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Huon Gulf; ; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Markham; North Huon Gulf; Numbami; South Huon Gulf;
Glottolog	huon1245

The Huon Gulf languages are Western Oceanic languages spoken primarily in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. They may form a group of the North New Guinea languages, perhaps within the Ngero–Vitiaz branch of that family.^{[citation needed]}

Unusually for Oceanic languages, two North Huon Gulf languages, Bukawa and Yabem, are tonal. The only other tonal Oceanic languages are found in New Caledonia.^[1]

Classification[]

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

North Huon Gulf linkage
Markham family
South Huon Gulf linkage
Numbami

References[]

^ Blust, Robert (2013). The Austronesian languages. A-PL 008 (revised ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/10191. ISBN 9781922185075.
^ Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.

Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

[Blust-AN-1] Blust, Robert (2013). The Austronesian languages. A-PL 008 (revised ed.). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/10191. ISBN 9781922185075.

[2] Lynch, John, Malcolm Ross & Terry Crowley. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press.

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Huon Gulf
Geographic distribution	Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Huon Gulf
Subdivisions	Markham North Huon Gulf Numbami South Huon Gulf
Glottolog	`huon1245`