Mailuan languages

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The Mailuan languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken in southeastern Papua New Guinea, forming one branch of the broader Papuan Tip linguistic area.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language family
language family
arealFeature contact with Oceanic languages
arealGrouping Papuan Tip linguistic area NERFINISHED
country Papua New Guinea
geneticClassification Papuan
Trans–New Guinea (proposed) NERFINISHED
glottologCode mail1243
glottologName Mailuan NERFINISHED
hasMember Bara language (Papua New Guinea) NERFINISHED
Domu language NERFINISHED
Laua language NERFINISHED
Mailu language NERFINISHED
Morawa language NERFINISHED
languageFamilyStatus small family
locatedIn Papuan Peninsula NERFINISHED
macroFamilyHypothesis Papuan Tip family (proposed higher-level grouping) NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguageFamily Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
partOf Papuan Tip languages NERFINISHED
region southeastern Papua New Guinea
subclassOf Papuan languages NERFINISHED
Trans–New Guinea languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature mostly SOV word order
usedIn Central Province (Papua New Guinea) NERFINISHED
Milne Bay Province NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Papuan Tip linkage hasSubgroup Mailuan languages