[DOC] [TLE] Papua New Guinea facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] The smaller islands of Papua New Guinea are also areas of extreme topographic 
... Papua New Guinea is the major center for a number of bird families, ... In all, 
there are more than 700 indigenous languages, most of them spoken by a few... [DOC] [TLE] Papua New Guinea : History | The Commonwealth [PAR] Melanesian people inhabited the area from 3000 or 2000 BCE, living in ... larger 
social order developed, and even today, more than 700 languages are spoken. ... 
when the number of elected seats in the House was increased to 84, and in 1968
, ... (BRA) led a movement for secession by the island from Papua New Guinea. [DOC] [TLE] Why do Polynesian island groups have one language and ... - Lacito [PAR] over much larger geographic areas than in Island Melanesia. ... where 10 or 20 
different languages may be spoken on the same large island and nearby ... 
differences in time depth of settlement played no more than a very small part in 
bringing ... cannot be related to each other.5 The many families of Papuan 
languages... [DOC] [TLE] History of the Pacific Islands - Wikipedia [PAR] History of the Pacific Islands covers the history of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. 
... The Cook Islands Te Reo Mori language is closely related to the Te Reo 
Maori .... navigators and agriculturists with influence over a large area of the 
Pacific. ... The History of New Zealand dates back to at least 700 years to when it 
was... [DOC] [TLE] Urheimat - Wikipedia [PAR] Urheimat is a linguistic term that denotes the hypothesized homeland of the 
speakers of a proto-language. A proto-language is a hypothetical parent 
language in the tree model of ..... 700559 BC). ... There are no written examples 
of Austroasiatic languages being spoken further west than Central India during 
the recent... [DOC] [TLE] papua new guinea by Nina Ruane on Prezi [PAR] Nov 17, 2014 ... No description ... Papuan, Melanesia and Nigritio tribes, who altogether spoke 
700 distinct languages. ... The religion of Pupua New Guinea is christian. ... The 
area of Papau New Guinea is around 8 525 989 km2. Papua New Guinea is 
located in Oceania centered on the island of the tropical Pacific Ocean. [DOC] [TLE] Papua New Guinea  Travel guide at Wikivoyage [PAR] The southeast part of the island, also known as Papua, was owned by the ... After 
the war, both New Guinea and Papua were administered from the government 
center ..... try to speak English first; using Tok Pisin or another language can 
make it ... area of New Britain are famous for creating ephemeral art-forms, 
perhaps no... [DOC] [TLE] A Predominantly Indigenous Paternal Heritage for the Austronesian ... [PAR] Jan 22, 2001 ... This region is also home to the Austronesian language family. ... language family 
before the age of European expansion, it is spoken ... No haplogroup A 
chromosomes were found. .... by the absence of shared haplotypes across these 
areas. .... The Papuan group comprises >700 distinct languages that... [DOC] [TLE] Matukar-Panau: A case study in language ... - Swarthmore College [PAR] identify the characteristics of a dying language in areas such as age of speaker 
.... Island. The Oceanic languages of coastal New Guinea are found on the outer 
... Oceanic languages, compared to the nearly 700 Papuan languages) and .... In 
Matukar village, Matukar is no longer spoken by children under ten (Section 1.2). [DOC] [TLE] Indonesia at a Glance  Consulate General of the Republic of ... [PAR] Its estimated total area is 9.8 million sq km (including Exclusive Economic Zone -
EEZ), ... Indonesia's five main islands are: Sumatra is about 473,606 sq km in 
size, Java ... coasts of Malaysia and Indo China, where the sea depth does not 
exceed 700 feet. .... Languages and dialects spoken and written over the whole 
of the... [DOC] [TLE] Papua New Guinea Today - RAND Corporation [PAR] develOpment center supported by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Contract No. ... Papua New

Question: The Papuan languages, spoken in the area centered on this island, number about 700
Answer: New Guinea