Trans-Fly – Bulaka River
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Trans-Fly – Bulaka River is a language family
proposed by Stephen Wurm
as part of his Trans–New Guinea phylum of Papuan languages
. It was broken up by Malcolm Ross
in his 2005 classification: three families (Kiwaian, Moraori, and Tirio
) remained in TNG, though not close to each other, while two (South-Central Papuan and Eastern Trans-Fly) were made independent families.
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...
proposed by Stephen Wurm
Stephen Wurm
Stephen Adolphe Wurm was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist.- Biography :Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and Hungarian-speaking Anna Novroczky, and was christened Istvan Adolphe Wurm...
as part of his Trans–New Guinea phylum of Papuan languages
Papuan languages
The Papuan languages are those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892.-The...
. It was broken up by 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:**...
in his 2005 classification: three families (Kiwaian, Moraori, and Tirio
Tirio languages
The Tirio languages are a family of Trans–New Guinea languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross. The three languages Tirio , Bitur , and Were are closely related, having about half their vocabulary in common. They share about a third of their vocabulary with Baramu...
) remained in TNG, though not close to each other, while two (South-Central Papuan and Eastern Trans-Fly) were made independent families.