DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8263582
title: Papuan languages and families (a list)

description: There are three files in this bundle. They list all Papuan languages and families:<br> Papuan_families_Glottocodes.txt<br> Papuan_families_names.csv<br> Papuan_languages.csv <br> Papuan_families.csv lists all Papuan language families and isolates. <br> It was generated from the listing at https://glottolog.org/glottolog/family by first filtering for the macro-area Papunesia.<br> The following families were removed in order to come up with a listing of just Papuan families and isolates: Austronesian Top-level family Africa, Eurasia, Papunesia, South America 747 1272<br> Indo-European Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America 346 585<br> Bookkeeping Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America 1 390<br> Sign Language Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America 50 223<br> Unclassifiable Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America 0 121<br> Pidgin Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America 48 84<br> Unattested Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America 18 68<br> Artificial Language Top-level family Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia 2 31<br> Japonic Top-level family Eurasia, Papunesia 11 17<br> Speech Register Top-level family Africa, Eurasia, Papunesia, South America 7 15 The result is 71 families and 52 isolates **************************************** <br> Papuan_languages.csv file was generated from the file (NG_area_australia_papunesia_glottolog_4.8.csv) by Hedvig Skirgård (https://github.com/HedvigS/personal-cookbook/blob/main/R/example_data/NG_area_australia_papunesia_glottolog_4.8.tsv) cleaned byː <br> removing irrelevant countries <br> removing the following families ː <br> aust1307 Austronesian<br> unat1236 unattested<br> uncl1493 unclassified<br> indo1319 indoeuropean<br> pidg1258 pidigins and creoles<br> sign1238 sign languages<br> book1242 “bookkeeping” languages in Glottolog <br> Notes on Hedvig's original file by herself:<br> " Malcolm Ross suggested an area called "New Guinea Region", and I've made a table of languages in glottolog 4.8 tagged for this. I find it useful when discussions of "Papuan" languages are brought up, as languages inside of this area that aren't Austronesian is often what people mean by the label. It's still useful to break down by smaller regions and families most of the time. Notes: I've followed Ross' illustrations as closely as I can<br> Guadacanal, Nggela and Temotu are not included in NG area<br> Talbot and Saibai are not included<br> Polynesian languages Takuu and Nukuria are included, as far as I can tell. If you don't want them included, remove them.<br> Kusini is included<br> I only tagged this for languages in glottolog, not families or dialects<br> Languages without Longitude Latitude weren't tagged Ref: Ross, M. (2017). Languages of the New Guinea region. The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics, 758-820." <br> ***************************** Papuan_families_Glottocodes.txt was generated by listing all family Glottocodes in the Papuan_languages.csv file and then sort | uniq. <br> NA = isolate.