Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family
The island of New Guinea is a region of spectacular, deep linguistic diversity.1It contains roughly 850 languages, which on present evidence fall into at least 18 language families that are not demonstrably related, along with several iso-lates.2 This immense diversity, far greater than that found i...
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Main Author: | Pawley, Andrew (auth) |
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Other Authors: | Hammarström, Harald (auth), Palmer, Bill (Editor) |
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Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017
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