The Bosavi or Papuan Plateau languages belong to the Trans-New Guinea language family according to the classifications made by Malcolm Ross and Timothy Usher. This language family derives its name from Mount Bosavi and the Papuan Plateau.
Geographically, the Bosavi languages are situated to the east and south of the East Strickland group. They can be found around Mount Bosavi, located east of the Strickland River and southwest of the western edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea. Although no extensive subgrouping analysis has been conducted, Shaw's lexicostatistical study in 1986 provides some insights.
Based on this study, it is indicated that Kaluli and Sonia exhibit a significant lexical similarity of 70%, which is higher than any other languages compared. Therefore, it is likely that these two languages form a subgroup. Similarly, Etoro and Bedamini share a subgroup with a lexical similarity of 67%. The languages Aimele, Kasua, Onobasulu, and Kaluli-Sunia exhibit more shared isoglosses among themselves than with the Etoro-Bedamini group. Some of these shared isoglosses are likely to be innovations.[1]
^The Trans New Guinea family Andrew Pawley and Harald Hammarström
The Bosavi or Papuan Plateau languages belong to the Trans-New Guinea language family according to the classifications made by Malcolm Ross and Timothy...
languages spoken in the country. In 2006, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare stated that "Papua New Guinea has 832 living languages (languages...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
branch of the Trans–New Guinea language family. Edolo language at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Shaw, R.D. "The Bosavilanguage family". In Laycock, D., Seiler...
Mount Bosavi is a mountain in the Southern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea. It is the collapsed cone of an extinct volcano on the Great Papuan Plateau...
River languages are a family of Papuan languages. The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum. Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which...
Kasua is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Kasua at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Logan, Tommy (July 2003). "Organised Phonology...
Kaluli is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea. It is a developing language with 3,100 speakers. Some people refer to this language as Bosavi, however the...
A Language of the Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PhD thesis). James Cook University. An archive of Eibela language materials from the Bosavi region...
Papuan language of Western Province, Papua New Guinea (Bamustu, Makapa, and Pikiwa villages). It is sometimes classified with the Bosavilanguages. Søren...
recordings. Beami at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Shaw, Daniel (1986). "The Bosavilanguage family". In Papers in New Guinea Linguistics. Vol. 24. Canberra: Research...
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
East Strickland or Bosavilanguages (though 1sg nê likely reflects proto-TNG *na), so Kamula is best left as an unclassified language an independent branch...
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) "Language: Onobasulu | Languages of Papua New Guinea". 1. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/onn/ v t e...
Lakes languages, also known as the Wissel Lakes or Wissel Lakes – Kemandoga River, are a small family of closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken...
The Central and South New Guinea languages (CSNG) are a proposed family of Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG). They were part of Voorhoeve & McElhanon's...
The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley...
missionaries among the four language-clans of Bosavi kalu ("men or people of Bosavi") that speak non-Austronesian languages. Their numbers are thought...
groups of people, the Kutubu Bosavi are partly of the Huli tribes and coastal, they speak Hela and the Foe Faso languages, the Erave Samberigi people also...
perhaps a dozen Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in eastern West Papua in the region of the Digul River. Six of the languages are sufficiently attested for...
The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around the Cook River in Province of South Papua, Indonesia:...
linked with the Mabuso languages by Arthur Capell to create his Madang family. John Z'graggen (1971, 1975) expanded Madang to languages of the Adelbert Range...
numerous language is Ngalum, with some 20,000 speakers; the best known is probably Telefol. The Ok languages have dyadic kinship terms. The Ok languages are...
census), speaking at least five different languages. The dominant ethnic groups of this region are the Bosavi, Hawalisi, and Onabasulu. Further to the...
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