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The Huon languages are a language family, spoken on the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea, that was classified within the original TransNew Guinea (TNG) proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG identity to be established. They share with the Finisterre languages a small closed class of verbs taking pronominal object prefixes some of which are cognate across both families (Suter 2012), strong morphological evidence that they are related.

Huon
Geographic
distribution
Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classificationTrans–New Guinea
Subdivisions
  • Eastern
  • Western
Glottologhuon1246

Internal structure


Huon and Finisterre, and then the connection between them, were identified by Kenneth McElhanon (1967, 1970). They are clearly valid language families. Huon contains two clear branches, Eastern and Western. The Western languages allow more consonants in syllable-final position (p, t, k, m, n, ŋ), while the Eastern languages have neutralized those distinctions to two, the glottal stop (written c) and the velar nasal (McElhanon 1974: 17). Beyond that, classification is based on lexicostatistics, which provides less precise classification results.

Kâte is the local lingua franca.


References



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    - [en] Huon languages

    [fr] Langues huon

    Les langues huon sont une famille de langues papoues parlées en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans la péninsule Huon, située dans la province de Morobe[1].



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