Papuan Tip languages
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The Papuan Tip languages are a branch of the Western Oceanic languages consisting of 60 languages.
Contact
All Papuan Tip languages, except Nimoa, Sudest, and the Kilivila languages (all spoken on islands off the coast of mainland Papua New Guinea), have subject–object–verb (SOV) word order due to influences from nearby Papuan languages (Lynch, Ross, & Crowley 2002:104). Universally, this is considered to be a typologically unusual change. Since these non-Austronesian influences can be reconstructed for Proto-Papuan Tip, they did not simply result from recent contact among individual daughter languages.
Languages
According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:
- Nuclear Papuan Tip linkage Suauic linkage: Buhutu, 'Auhelawa, Oya'oya, Unubahe, Saliba, Suau, Bwanabwana, Wagawaga North Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux linkage Anuki Gumawana Bwaidoga: Bwaidoka, Diodio (West Goodenough), Iamalele, Iduna, Koluwawa, Maiadomu Dobu–Duau: Dobu, Molima, Bunama, Boselewa, Duau, Galeya, Mwatebu, Sewa Bay Kakabai: Dawawa, Kakabai Are–Taupota[citation needed] Are: Are, Arifama-Miniafia, Doga, Gapapaiwa, Ghayavi, Kaninuwa, Ubir Taupota: Gweda, Haigwai, Maiwala, Minaveha, Taupota, Tawala, Wa'ema, Wedau, Yakaikeke
- Kilivila–Misima linkage Kilivila family: Budibud, Kilivila, Muyuw Misima language
- Nimoa–Sudest family: Nimoa, Sudest
- Central Papuan Tip family Oumic: Magoric (Magori, Yoba, Bina), Ouma Sinagoro–Keapara: Hula–Keapara, Sinaugoro West Central Papuan Tip[citation needed] Motu Abadi Nuclear West Central Papuan Tip: Toura, Kuni, Mekeo, Lala, Waima
Maisin is difficult to classify, but its Austronesian component likely belongs with Nuclear Papuan Tip. Yele has recently been tentatively classified as closest to Nimoa–Sudest, while others classify it as a Papuan language.