Papua New Guinea Oceanic languages

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Papua New Guinea Oceanic languages are a branch of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family spoken across coastal and island regions of Papua New Guinea.

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instanceOf Oceanic languages branch
language subgroup
areAffectedBy language endangerment in some communities
language shift to Tok Pisin
areClassifiedBy historical-comparative method
areDocumentedIn descriptive grammars of individual languages
lexicons and wordlists of individual languages
areKnownFor complex verbal morphology
inclusive–exclusive distinction in first person plural pronouns
rich pronominal systems
use of prepositions rather than postpositions
areSpokenAlong Bismarck Sea coasts
Solomon Sea coasts
areSpokenBy coastal communities of Papua New Guinea
island communities of Papua New Guinea
areStudiedBy Austronesian linguists
areStudiedFor reconstruction of Proto-Oceanic
areSubjectOf comparative Oceanic linguistics research
coexistWith English in Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea
contrastedWith Papuan languages of Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
hasGeographicDistribution Admiralty Islands NERFINISHED
Bismarck Archipelago NERFINISHED
Bougainville region NERFINISHED
New Britain region NERFINISHED
New Ireland region NERFINISHED
north coast of Papua New Guinea
hasLanguageFamily Austronesian NERFINISHED
hasSubgroup Admiralty Islands languages
Meso-Melanesian languages
New Ireland–Northwest Solomonic languages NERFINISHED
Western Oceanic languages (Papua New Guinea branches)
havePhonologicalFeature relatively small consonant inventories (in many member languages)
simple syllable structures (in many member languages)
haveWritingSystem Latin script (for many member languages)
higherLevelFamily Malayo-Polynesian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamilyBranch Oceanic NERFINISHED
partOf Austronesian languages NERFINISHED
Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
shareFeatureWith other Oceanic languages
spokenIn Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
coastal regions of Papua New Guinea
island regions of Papua New Guinea
subgroupOf Central–Eastern Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
typicalWordOrder SVO
usedIn local trade and communication in coastal Papua New Guinea

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Tolai language subgroup Papua New Guinea Oceanic languages