Bosavi languages

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The Bosavi languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken around Mount Bosavi in the Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language group
language family
arealFeature contact with other Papuan languages
arealGroup Trans–New Guinea area NERFINISHED
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
documentationStatus under-documented
ethnolinguisticRegion Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
familyColor Papuan
fieldworkImportance significant for understanding Papuan language diversity
geneticRelationship closely related languages
geographicDistribution rainforest region around Mount Bosavi
glottologClassification Bosavi NERFINISHED
hasMember Beami language NERFINISHED
Edolo language NERFINISHED
Kaluli language NERFINISHED
Kasua language NERFINISHED
Onobasulu language NERFINISHED
Samo language (Bosavi family)
Wasi language NERFINISHED
languageFamilySize small
linguisticArea Bosavi linguistic area
locatedIn New Guinea Highlands region NERFINISHED
macroFamilyHypothesis Trans–New Guinea languages NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguageFamilies Trans–New Guinea languages NERFINISHED
other Papuan language families
populationContext spoken by small language communities
region Mount Bosavi area NERFINISHED
Southern Highlands Province NERFINISHED
researchField Papuan linguistics
spokenAround Mount Bosavi NERFINISHED
spokenIn Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
status endangered
subclassOf Papuan languages
typologicalFeature SOV word order (subject–object–verb)
agglutinative morphology
rich verbal morphology
small phoneme inventories
usedBy indigenous communities around Mount Bosavi
writingSystem primarily oral tradition

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Trans–New Guinea languages hasSubgroup Bosavi languages