Melanesian languages information

Formosan languages (Northern) Western Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Melanesian languages (including Fijian) Micronesian languages Polynesian...

Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. Most speak one of...

mythology Melanesian languages All pages with titles beginning with Melanesian This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Melanesian. If...

of the Melanesian groups who speak Austronesian languages, but found no such signature at all in Papuan-speaking groups. Most of the languages of Melanesia...

mixed origin. Nowadays, there are about 30 Melanesian languages spoken in the territory, as well as languages peculiar to the immigrant populations (Javanese...

Melanesian Pidgin or Neo-Melanesian language comprises four related English-derived languages of Melanesia: Bislama, of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Pidgin...

: 10  Oceanic Yapese language Admiralty languages St Matthias languages (Mussau and Tench) Western Oceanic linkage Meso-Melanesian linkage New Guinea Oceanic...

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...

term and portmanteau for people of mixed European and either Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian descent. The term is most commonly used in Samoa and Fiji...

official purposes and as the language of prestige.: 61  The language contains structural elements primarily from Melanesian languages and lexical elements mainly...

society, languages, and customs through a close association with them. He also intensively studied "Melanesian languages", including the Mota language. He...

political lyrics and is sung in Drehu, Paici or other Melanesian languages, or in French. In the German language, the racial epithet Kanake — which is now applied...

Many words in the Tok Pisin language are derived from English (with Australian influences), indigenous Melanesian languages, and German (part of the country...

Sandwich Islands", in The Melanesian Languages, 471–476. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Daniel MacDonald (1889) "Grammar of the Efatese language", in Daniel MacDonald...

Melanesian mythology refers to the folklore, myths, and religions of Melanesia, a region in Southwest Oceania that encompasses the archipelagos of New...

term "Ocean" language family rather than "Malayo-Polynesian" in 1891, in opposition to the exclusion of Melanesian and Micronesian languages. This was adopted...

official language of Papua New Guinea in 2015. The language has been called "Melanesian Sign Language". However, this does not translate what the community...

Comparison as a Tool for Investigating Language History". In Evans, Nicholas; Klamer, Marian (eds.). Melanesian Languages on the Edge of Asia: Challenges for...

split from the Tangga language in 2013. It is one of the languages that form the St George linkage group of Meso-Melanesian languages. 2011 PNG Census Lynch...

The family of Northwest Solomonic languages is a branch of the Oceanic languages. It includes the Austronesian languages of Bougainville and Buka in Papua...

within the Meso-Melanesian cluster of the Oceanic languages. Vitu is so closely related to the neighbouring Uneapa (or Bali) language that the two are...

is an Oceanic language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Paradisec has the Malcolm Ross collection (MR1), which includes Tomoip language materials. Tomoip...

language materials. Tigak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). "Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of...

Nehan-Bougainville family of languages, part of the Northwest Solomonic group of the Meso-Melanesian cluster within the Oceanic languages. Its closest relative...

related language called Balinese. Uneapa, together with neighboring Vitu, forms a subgroup within the Meso-Melanesian cluster of the Oceanic languages. The...

The Southern Oceanic languages are a linkage (rather than family) of Oceanic languages spoken in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. It was proposed by John Lynch...