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- Yabem, or Jabêm, is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. Yabem belongs to the division of the Melanesian languages spoken natively (in 1978)...
- government usage is Bukawa (Eckermann 2007:1), even though it comes from the Yabem language, which served as a church and school lingua franca in the coastal...
- Unusually for Oceanic languages, two North Huon Gulf languages, Bukawa and Yabem, are tonal. The only other tonal Oceanic languages are found in New Caledonia...
- century. The orthography of Labu is based on that of Yabêm (= Jabêm), except that y replaces Yabêm j. The vowels of some words in Labu are distinguished...
- counterpart of this sound, the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/. In Yabem and similar languages, such as Bukawa, ⟨c⟩ stands for a glottal stop /ʔ/...
- administrative districts. At least 101 languages are spoken, including Kâte and Yabem language. English and Tok Pisin are common languages in the urban areas...
- Yabim, also spelled Yabem and Jabem, are a people in Papua New Guinea. They speak the Yabem language. German missionaries visited them and wrote about...
- Kairiru Terebu Biem Kis Manam Medebur Sepa Wogeo Huon Gulf Bukawa Kela Yabem Aribwatsa † Aribwaung Adzera Dangal Duwet Labu Maralango Mari Musom Nafi...
- Kairiru Terebu Biem Kis Manam Medebur Sepa Wogeo Huon Gulf Bukawa Kela Yabem Aribwatsa † Aribwaung Adzera Dangal Duwet Labu Maralango Mari Musom Nafi...
- with a number of exceptions, e.g. Vietnamese (Austroasiatic), Cèmuhî and Yabem (Austronesian). Tones in Vietnamese and Tsat may result from Chinese influence...