Sepik languages
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sepik-languages-215-3754475
title:
Sepik languages
text:
The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here. They tend to have simple phonologies, with few consonants or vowels and usually no tones. The best known Sepik language is Iatmul. The most populous are Iatmul's fellow Ndu languages Abelam and Boiken, with about 35,000 speakers each. The Sepik languages, like their Ramu ne
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Papuan language family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepik_languages
date created:
2006-01-24T01:30:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T19:05:40Z
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