• Source: Huon languages

The Huon languages are a language family, spoken on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea, that was classified within the original Trans–New Guinea (TNG) proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG identity to be established. They share with the Finisterre languages a small closed class of verbs taking pronominal object prefixes some of which are cognate across both families (Suter 2012), strong morphological evidence that they are related.




Internal structure


Huon and Finisterre, and the connection between them, were identified by Kenneth McElhanon (1967, 1970). They are clearly valid language families. Huon contains two clear branches, Eastern and Western. The Western languages allow more consonants in syllable-final position (p, t, k, m, n, ŋ), while the Eastern languages have neutralized those distinctions to two, the glottal stop (written c) and the velar nasal (McElhanon 1974: 17). Beyond that, classification is based on lexicostatistics, which provides less precise classification results.

Huon family
Eastern Huon branch
Huon Tip
Southeast Huon: Kâte, Mape
Sene
Masaweng River: Migabac, Momare
Kovai
Tobo-Kube
Dedua
Western Huon branch
Burum (Mindik), Borong (Kosorong)
Kinalakna, Kumokio
Mese, Nabak
Komba, Selepet–Timbe
Nomu
Ono
Sialum
Kâte is the local lingua franca.




References



Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages". In Andrew Pawley; Robert Attenborough; Robin Hide; Jack Golson (eds.). Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 15–66. ISBN 0858835622. OCLC 67292782.
McElhanon, K. A. (1970). Lexicostatistics and the classification of Huon Peninsula languages. Oceania 40: 215-231.
McElhanon, K. A. (1974). The glottal stop in Kâte. Kivung 7: 16-22.
Suter, Edgar (2012). Verbs with pronominal object prefixes in Finisterre-Huon languages. In: Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.). History, contact and classification of Papuan languages. [Special Issue 2012 of Language and Linguistics in Melanesia]. 23-58. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Rumpun bahasa Trans-Nugini
• Rumpun bahasa Nugini Utara
• Wodonga
• Rumpun suku bangsa Austronesia
• Huon languages
• Finisterre–Huon languages
• North Huon Gulf languages
• Huon Gulf languages
• South Huon Gulf languages
• Trans–New Guinea languages
• Kâte language
• Papuan languages
• Huon Peninsula
• Finisterre languages