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- Ndu_languages abstract "The Ndu languages are the best known family of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Ndu is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group. The languages were first identified as a related family by Kirschbaum in 1922.Abelam is the most populous language, with about 45,000 speakers, though Iatmül is better known to the outside world. There are eight to twelve Ndu languages, depending on how dialects are classified. Ethnologue 16 counted them as,Iatmul, Ngala, Manambu, Yelogu, Abelam (Ambulas), Boiken, Sawos / Malinguat (Keak, Sos Kundi, Gaikundi), Kwasengen (Hanga Hundi), Burui, Koiwat, Sengo.Most Sepik and neighboring languages have systems of three vowels, /ɨ ə a/, that are distinct only in height. Phonetic [i e u o] are a result of palatal and labial assimilation of /ɨ ə/ to adjacent consonants. The Ndu languages may take this reduction a step further: In these languages, /ɨ/ is used as an epenthetic vowel to break up consonant clusters in compound words. Within words, /ɨ/ only occurs between similar consonants, and seems to be explicable as epenthesis there as well, so that the only underlying vowels that need to be assumed are |ə| and |a|. That is, the Ndu languages may be a rare case of a two-vowel system, the others being the Arrernte and Northwest Caucasian languages. However, contrasting analyses of these same languages may posit a dozen vowel monophthongs.".
- Ndu_languages wikiPageExternalLink manambu-language.html.
- Ndu_languages wikiPageID "4762132".
- Ndu_languages wikiPageRevisionID "602081961".
- Ndu_languages child "8".
- Ndu_languages fam Middle_Sepik_languages.
- Ndu_languages fam Sepik_languages.
- Ndu_languages familycolor "Papuan".
- Ndu_languages glotto "nduu1242".
- Ndu_languages hasPhotoCollection Ndu_languages.
- Ndu_languages name "Ndu".
- Ndu_languages region "Sepik River basin, Papua New Guinea".
- Ndu_languages subject Category:Languages_of_Papua_New_Guinea.
- Ndu_languages subject Category:Sepik_languages.
- Ndu_languages type Abstraction100002137.
- Ndu_languages type Class107997703.
- Ndu_languages type Collection107951464.
- Ndu_languages type Communication100033020.
- Ndu_languages type Group100031264.
- Ndu_languages type Language106282651.
- Ndu_languages type LanguagesOfPapuaNewGuinea.
- Ndu_languages type SepikLanguages.
- Ndu_languages comment "The Ndu languages are the best known family of the Sepik languages of northern Papua New Guinea. Ndu is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group. The languages were first identified as a related family by Kirschbaum in 1922.Abelam is the most populous language, with about 45,000 speakers, though Iatmül is better known to the outside world. There are eight to twelve Ndu languages, depending on how dialects are classified.".
- Ndu_languages label "Langues ndu".
- Ndu_languages label "Lenguas ndu".
- Ndu_languages label "Ndu languages".
- Ndu_languages sameAs Lenguas_ndu.
- Ndu_languages sameAs Langues_ndu.
- Ndu_languages sameAs m.0cl_75.
- Ndu_languages sameAs Q3217498.
- Ndu_languages sameAs Q3217498.
- Ndu_languages sameAs Ndu_languages.
- Ndu_languages wasDerivedFrom Ndu_languages?oldid=602081961.
- Ndu_languages isPrimaryTopicOf Ndu_languages.