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Papuan Gulf languages

proposed language family of Papua New Guinea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ48803685 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Papuan Gulf languages are a proposed language family of Papuan languages spoken inland from the large gulf that defines the shape of southern Papua New Guinea.

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Further reading

Franklin, K. editor. The linguistic situation in the Gulf District and adjacent areas, Papua New Guinea. C-26, x + 607 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1973.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Papuan Gulf languages” as proposed language family of Papua New Guinea. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Papuan, Gulf and languages can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as proposed language family of Papua New Guinea. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q48803685. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Papuan Gulf languages” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.