https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Mussau-Emira_Language_%28emi%29 2026-10-17T06:33:48Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.1 https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Mussau-Emira_Language_(emi)&diff=43732&oldid=prev 2009-08-13T19:26:30Z

<p>New page: &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Emira-mussau,Musau-emira,Musao,Mussau &lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Emira-mussau,Musau-emira,Musao,Mussau<br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> The Mussau-Emira language is spoken on the islands of Mussau and Emirau in the St. Matthias Islands in the Bismarck Archipelago.<br /> Mussau-Emira distinguishes the following consonants.<br /> In most words the primary stress falls on the penultimate vowel and secondary stresses fall on every second syllable preceding that. This is true of suffixed forms as well, as in níma &#039;hand&#039;, nimá-gi &#039;my hand&#039;; níu &#039;coconut&#039;, niyúna &#039;its coconut&#039;.<br /> Prefixes mark the subjects of each verb:&lt;i&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=2022832 ..... full article at Wikipedia]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Location of Mussau-Emira Language Speakers&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> http://llmap.org/languages/emi/static_map.png?width=400&amp;height=300&amp;kilroywashere=.png<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=right&gt; <br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main Country: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/papua_new_guinea Papua New Guinea]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spoken In: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Regions: &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania] <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISO 639-3 Code: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;emi&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Classification Taxonomy&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> [[All Languages]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Austronesian Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Malayo-Polynesian Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Central-Eastern Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Oceanic Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Western Oceanic Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[St. Matthias Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;[[Mussau-Emira Language]]&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> <br /> __NOTOC__</div>

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