Bosavi languages

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The Bosavi languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken around Mount Bosavi in the Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea.

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Bosavi languages canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Papuan language group
language family
arealFeature contact with other Papuan languages
arealGroup Trans–New Guinea area
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
documentationStatus under-documented
ethnolinguisticRegion Southern Highlands region of Papua New Guinea
familyColor Papuan
fieldworkImportance significant for understanding Papuan language diversity
geneticRelationship closely related languages
geographicDistribution rainforest region around Mount Bosavi
glottologClassification Bosavi
hasMember Beami language
Edolo language
Kaluli language
Kasua language
Onobasulu language
Samo language (Bosavi family)
Wasi language
linked to: Vasi-weri language
languageFamilySize small
linguisticArea Bosavi linguistic area
locatedIn New Guinea Highlands region
macroFamilyHypothesis Trans–New Guinea languages
neighboringLanguageFamilies Trans–New Guinea languages
other Papuan language families
populationContext spoken by small language communities
region Mount Bosavi area
Southern Highlands Province
researchField Papuan linguistics
spokenAround Mount Bosavi
spokenIn Papua New Guinea
status endangered
subclassOf Papuan languages
typologicalFeature SOV word order (subject–object–verb)
agglutinative morphology
rich verbal morphology
small phoneme inventories
usedBy indigenous communities around Mount Bosavi
writingSystem primarily oral tradition

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Trans–New Guinea languages hasSubgroup Bosavi languages