Oceanic: New Guinea region

This page covers the Oceanic languages of the New Guinea region, included in Section 2.2.3.5 of Ross (2021). See also Papuan languages for the non-Austronesian languages of the New Guinea region, including the Trans–New Guinea languages, which may have borrowed Austronesian conjunctions that then grammaticalized as switch-reference markers.

Languages

• Kove
• Manam
• Tawala

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