Information: - Papuan is an umbrella term for the various indigenous peoples of New Guinea and neighbouring islands, speakers of the Papuan languages. They are often distinguished ethnically and linguistically from Austronesians, speakers of a language family introduced into New Guinea about three thousand years ago. - Sidney Herbert Ray (28 May 1858 1 January 1939) was a comparative and descriptive linguist who specialized in Melanesian languages. In 1892, he read an important paper, "The languages of British New Guinea", to the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists. In that paper, he established the distinction between the Austronesian and Papuan languages of New Guinea. Although he never held an academic position, and was employed throughout his working life as a school teacher, S. H. Ray was an energetic fieldworker, and participated in a number of expeditions. - Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney. - The Border or Upper Tami languages are an independent family of Papuan languages in Malcolm Ross 's version of the Trans -- New Guinea proposal . They are named after the Indonesia -- Papua New Guinea border , which they span . - New Guinea (or, historically, "") is a large Island in the South West Pacific region. - The languages of Papua New Guinea today number over 850. These languages are spoken by the inhabited tribal groups of Papua New Guinea making it the most linguistically diverse place on earth. Its official languages are Tok Pisin, English, Hiri Motu and Papua New Guinean Sign Language. Tok Pisin, an English-based creole, is the most widely spoken, serving as the country's lingua franca. Papua New Guinean Sign Language became the 4th official language in May 2015, as it is spoken by the deaf population all over the country. - The Papuan languages are a subset of Languages of Papua New Guinea of the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, that are neither Austronesian nor Australian. The term does not presuppose a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892. What object entity has the relation of 'instance of' with the subject 'border languages '? Choices: - 1 - area - capital - continent - country - island - january - language family - may - number - paper - position - relationship - sign - sign language - subset - term
language family
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Information: - The Finnic (Fennic) or Baltic Finnic (Balto-Finnic, Balto-Fennic) languages are a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by about 7 million people. - The Baltic Sea ( ; ) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries, and the North European Plain. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga, and the Bay of Gdask. The sea stretches from 53N to 66N latitude and from 10E to 30E longitude. A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two bodies, the Baltic Sea drains through the Danish islands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of resund, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt. - South Estonian is spoken in South - Eastern Estonia , encompassing the Tartu , Mulgi , Voro and Seto varieties . There is no academic consensus on its status , as some linguists consider South Estonian a dialect of Estonian whereas other linguists consider South Estonian an independent Finnic languange . South Estonian is largely mutually intelligible with modern standard Estonian , although diachronically North and South Estonian are separate branches of the Finnic languages . Modern standard Estonian has evolved on the basis of the dialects of Northern Estonia . However , in the 17th to 19th century in Southern Estonia literature was published in a standardized form of Southern Tartu and Northern Voro . This usage was called the Tartu ( or South Estonian ) literary language . The written standard was used in the schools , churches and courts of the Voro and Tartu linguistic area but not in the Seto and Mulgi area . After Estonia gained independence in 1918 , the standardized Estonian language policies were implemented further throughout the country . The government officials during the era believed that the Estonian state needed to have one standard language for all its citizens that led to exclusion of South Estonian at schools . The ban on the instruction and speaking of South Estonian dialects in schools continued during Soviet occupation ( 1940 -- 1990 ) . After Estonia regained independence in 1991 , the Estonian government has become more supportive of the protection and development of South Estonian . A modernized literary form founded on the Voro dialect of South Estonian has been created . What object entity has the relation of 'instance of' with the subject 'south estonian'? Choices: - bay - belt - branch - exchange - language - language family - mediterranean sea - ocean - sea
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language family