Eastern Trans-Fly languages

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The Eastern Trans-Fly languages are a small group of Papuan languages spoken in the Trans-Fly region of southern New Guinea and nearby islands, including by some Torres Strait Islander communities.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Eastern Trans-Fly languages canonical 3
Trans-Fly languages 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language family
language family
areEndangered true
areGeographicallyContinuousWith other Trans-Fly Papuan languages
areNonAustronesian true
arePartOf Papuan (non‑Austronesian) languages
surface form: Papuan languages of New Guinea
areSubjectOf historical-comparative research
language documentation projects
continent Oceania
geographicDistribution Trans-Fly lowlands
eastern part of the Trans-Fly region
islands of Torres Strait
southern coast of New Guinea
hasAlternativeName Eastern Trans-Fly family
Eastern Trans-Fly stock
hasGlottologCode east2732
hasGlottologName Eastern Trans-Fly
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative morphology (approximate)
hasMember Bine language
Gizrra language
Kawam language
Mawase language
Meriam language
Wipi language
hasNumberOfLanguages small family
hasWordOrder SOV (tendency)
languageFamilyColor Papuan
likelyRelatedTo Pahoturi languages
Western Trans-Fly languages
locatedNear Gulf of Papua
Papua
surface form: Papua (Indonesia)
macroFamilyHypothesis Trans-Fly – Bulaka River hypothesis
Trans-Fly – Yam family hypothesis
regionType coastal region
spokenBy Torres Strait Islanders
indigenous communities of the Trans-Fly region
spokenByMinorityGroups true
spokenIn New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Torres Strait
Trans-Fly region
Western Province, Papua New Guinea
southern New Guinea
spokenOn eastern Torres Strait Islands
subclassOf Eastern Trans-Fly languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Trans-Fly languages

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Input
Subject: Eastern Trans-Fly languages
Description of subject: The Eastern Trans-Fly languages are a small group of Papuan languages spoken in the Trans-Fly region of southern New Guinea and nearby islands, including by some Torres Strait Islander communities.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Torres Strait Islanders languageFamily Eastern Trans-Fly languages
Eastern Trans-Fly languages subclassOf Eastern Trans-Fly languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Trans-Fly languages
Meriam Mir languageFamily Eastern Trans-Fly languages
Zenadh Kes people hasLanguageFamily Eastern Trans-Fly languages