Oriental Beards Head languages - a language family consisting of three languages: Manicion, Meiah, Moskon, which are spoken on the Chandravasih Peninsula (Beards Head), west of New Guinea Island with a total of 20,000 speakers.
| Eastern Beards Head languages, Languages of the eastern part of the Chandravasih Peninsula | |
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| Taxon | family |
| Status | recognized |
| Area | Papua Province, Indonesia |
| Classification | |
| Category | Papuan languages |
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| Composition | |
| Language group codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-5 | - |
Stephen Wurm defines the divisions of his Papuan classification as a family (order of Germanic languages ), a group of related languages (order of Indo-European languages ), and phyla (order of nostratic hypotheses). East Beards Head - terminology. A language that is not associated with any other at the family level, such as Greek and Indo-European, will be called an isolate in this pattern.
Classification
Related languages group Beards Head (3 languages):
- Mantion (manicion) - isolate
- Meax family: meah, moscon
- ? saponi (conflicting evidence)
Links
- Birds Head Languages at Ethnologue
- Birds Head Languages at Glottolog