contact with Papuan languages

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Contact with Papuan languages refers to the historical and ongoing linguistic interaction between Papuan language communities and neighboring language groups, leading to shared features, borrowing, and structural influence.

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instanceOf language contact
linguistic contact phenomenon
sociolinguistic process
associatedWith language endangerment in Papuan regions
multilingualism in New Guinea
pidgin and creole development in Melanesia
canLeadTo alignment pattern changes
borrowing of discourse particles
borrowing of numerals
borrowing of pronouns
phoneme inventory changes
word order changes
drivenBy colonial administration
education
intermarriage
migration
missionary activity
trade
urbanization
hasEffect code-switching
emergence of mixed codes
language shift
lexical borrowing
morphosyntactic influence
phonological influence
semantic borrowing
structural convergence
involves Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
English NERFINISHED
Indonesian NERFINISHED
Papuan languages NERFINISHED
Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
neighboring non-Papuan languages
occursIn Indonesian Papua NERFINISHED
Melanesia NERFINISHED
New Guinea NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
Papua Province NERFINISHED
West Papua Province NERFINISHED
islands of eastern Indonesia
relatedTo Austronesian–Papuan contact NERFINISHED
New Guinea linguistic area NERFINISHED
resultsIn areal diffusion of linguistic traits
formation of linguistic areas
shared grammatical features
studiedIn Papuan linguistics
contact linguistics
historical linguistics
typology

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Western Bismarck languages arealFeature contact with Papuan languages