Engan languages
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The Engan languages are a family
of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross
. The nine languages are clearly related.
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...
of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross
Malcolm Ross
Malcolm David Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. He has published work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact.-External links:**...
. The nine languages are clearly related.
- North Engan: EngaEnga languageEnga is a language of the East New Guinea Highlands that is spoken by approximately 180,000 people in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It has the largest body of speakers of any native language in New Guinea....
, Ipili, LembenaLembena languageLembena, also known as Lembena Pii, Nanimba Pii, Uyalipa Pii, or Wapi Pii, is an Engan language spoken in Papua New Guinea. There are 1,760 speakers of the languages, of which 750 are monolingual....
, BisorioNete languageNete, also known as Bisorio, Malamauda, or Iniai, is an Engan language spoken in Papua New Guinea. The Nete and Bisorio dialects have limited mutual intelligibility....
(Nete, Iniai) - Sount Engan: HuliHuli languageHuli is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by the Huli people of the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. It features a quindecimal numeral system.-External links:***, Brian Cheetam. Papua New Guinea Journal of Education...
, Angal, Samberigi (Sau), Kewa, Mendi