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Hace 3 días · So-called Papuan languages comprise hundreds of different languages, most of which are not related. As in other provinces, Indonesian is the official language of the state, as well as the province. Indonesian is used in inter-ethnic communication, usually between native Papuans and non-Papuan migrants who came from other parts of ...
Hace 5 días · Most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia. Many Austronesian languages have very few speakers, but the major Austronesian languages are spoken by tens of millions of people.
Hace 2 días · Papua New Guinea’s magnificent and varied scenery reflects a generally recent geologic history in which movements of the Earth ’s crust resulted in the collision of the northward-moving Australian Plate with the westward-moving Pacific Plate. The low-lying plains of southern New Guinea are geologically part of the Australian Plate.
Hace 5 días · The indigenous groups speak numerous Papuan languages, while Austronesian languages are spoken by most others. The bulk of the population is Christian (primarily Protestant); Muslims make up the largest religious minority. Local religions are practiced by some of the Papuan communities.
Hace 3 días · Major Austronesian languages include Malay (around 250–270 million in Indonesia alone in its own literary standard, named Indonesian), Javanese, and Filipino . The family contains 1,257 languages, the second-largest number of any language family.
It would be interesting if language similarities could be found between these language isolates and the Negrito / Papuan / Australian Aboriginal languages. Similarities in sentence structure and shared verbiage would be fascinating in terms of reconstructing multi-millenia old sentence structure for the Basal East Eurasian groups.
Hace 4 días · Map is showing how many articles of each European language there were (as of January 2019). 1 square represents 10,000 articles. Languages with less than 10,000 articles are represented with one square. Languages are grouped by language family and each language family is presented by a separate colour.
