Trans-New Guinea

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Etymology

From trans- +‎ New Guinea.

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Trans-New Guinea

  1. A major language family spoken in large parts of New Guinea.
    • 2007, Ivan Derzhanski, “Fifth International Olympiad in Theoretical, Mathematical and Applied Linguistics”, in International Linguistics Olympiad‎[1], page 3:
      The squares of the numbers 1 to 10 are spelt out in the Ndom3 language, in arbitrary order: […] 3 The Ndom language belongs to the Trans-New Guinea family. It is spoken by about 1200 people on the isle of Kolopom (Pulau Kolepom, Pulau Kimaam or Pulau Dolok, formerly Frederick Hendrik Island) off the coast of the Indonesian half of New Guinea.

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