Bosavi languages

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The Bosavi languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken around Mount Bosavi in the Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea.

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Bosavi languages canonical 1

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Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language group ⓘ
language family ⓘ
arealFeature contact with other Papuan languages ⓘ
arealGroup Trans–New Guinea area ⓘ
continent Oceania ⓘ
country Papua New Guinea ⓘ
documentationStatus under-documented ⓘ
ethnolinguisticRegion Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea ⓘ
familyColor Papuan ⓘ
fieldworkImportance significant for understanding Papuan language diversity ⓘ
geneticRelationship closely related languages ⓘ
geographicDistribution rainforest region around Mount Bosavi ⓘ
glottologClassification Bosavi ⓘ
hasMember Beami language ⓘ
Edolo language ⓘ
Kaluli language ⓘ
Kasua language ⓘ
Onobasulu language ⓘ
Samo language (Bosavi family) ⓘ
Wasi language ⓘ
linked to: Vasi-weri language
languageFamilySize small ⓘ
linguisticArea Bosavi linguistic area ⓘ
locatedIn New Guinea Highlands region ⓘ
macroFamilyHypothesis Trans–New Guinea languages ⓘ
neighboringLanguageFamilies Trans–New Guinea languages ⓘ
other Papuan language families ⓘ
populationContext spoken by small language communities ⓘ
region Mount Bosavi area ⓘ
Southern Highlands Province ⓘ
researchField Papuan linguistics ⓘ
spokenAround Mount Bosavi ⓘ
spokenIn Papua New Guinea ⓘ
status endangered ⓘ
subclassOf Papuan languages ⓘ
typologicalFeature SOV word order (subject–object–verb) ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
small phoneme inventories ⓘ
usedBy indigenous communities around Mount Bosavi ⓘ
writingSystem primarily oral tradition ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Trans–New Guinea languages → hasSubgroup → Bosavi languages ⓘ