North_New_Guinea_languages Knowpia

North New Guinea
North New Guinea
Geographic; distribution	Northern New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	? Sarmi–Jayapura family; Schouten linkage; Huon Gulf family; Ngero–Vitiaz linkage;
Glottolog	nort3206

The North New Guinea languages of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia form a possible linkage of Western Oceanic languages. They have been in heavy contact with Papuan languages.

Classification edit

According to Lynch, Ross, & Crowley (2002), the structure of the family is as follows:

The center of dispersal was evidently near the Vitiaz Strait between New Britain and the New Guinea mainland.

The inclusion of Sarmi and Jayapura Bay is uncertain, and it may constitute a separate branch of Western Oceanic.

Ross, Malcolm (1988). Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

North New Guinea
Geographic distribution	Northern New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea
Subdivisions	? Sarmi–Jayapura family Schouten linkage Huon Gulf family Ngero–Vitiaz linkage
Glottolog	`nort3206`