North Huon Gulf languages explained

North Huon Gulf
Region:Huon Gulf, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam3:Oceanic
Fam4:Western Oceanic
Fam5:North New Guinea
Fam6:Huon Gulf
Child1:Bukawa
Child2:Yabem
Child3:Kela
Glotto:nort2858
Glottorefname:North Huon Gulf linkage

The family of North Huon Gulf languages is a subgroup of the Huon Gulf languages of Papua New Guinea.

It consists of three languages, all of which are distinguished by severe truncation of many inherited roots and the compensatory development of suprasegmentals on vowels: phonemic tone in Yabem and Bukawa (Ross 1993) and nasalization in Kela (Johnson 1994).

Languages

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