Nuclear Bel languages

Nuclear Bel languages
Nuclear Bel
Geographic
distribution:
northern New Guinea
Linguistic classification: Austronesian
Subdivisions:

The five Nuclear Bel languages form a group of Austronesian languages of northern New Guinea.

Languages

A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database[1] determined the following structure of the family. Marik was not considered, but is widely considered to be the most divergent Nuclear Bel language:

References



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