WUTUNG [passim in text] Wutung (Oenaki, Oinåke) - Friederici ...
WUTUNG [passim in text] Wutung (Oenaki, Oinåke) - Friederici ...
WUTUNG [passim in text] Wutung (Oenaki, Oinåke) - Friederici ...
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southeast of Jayapura. ...<br />
- Grimes 1996.<br />
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... the language marked as Sangke, and previously spoken <strong>in</strong> at<br />
least three different settlements <strong>in</strong>land from Skou across the<br />
Tami river 13 , is now exclusively spoken by people liv<strong>in</strong>g at Nyao<br />
village <strong>in</strong> Papua New Gu<strong>in</strong>ea, ... There are no permanent<br />
settlements, however. The land east of the Tami river belongs to<br />
<strong>Wutung</strong>, but aga<strong>in</strong> there are no permanent settlements on this<br />
land, though <strong>Wutung</strong> land holders do frequently cross the border<br />
for rout<strong>in</strong>e garden ma<strong>in</strong>tenance. ...<br />
- Donohue 2002 Ts:[16].<br />
13 Cheesman (1938) refers to Njau and two other, un-named<br />
villages. Skou people recognise the names Te Jáwung for modern<br />
Nyao, <strong>in</strong> Papua New Gu<strong>in</strong>ea, and Te Húele, Te Nóemo, Te Kófo, and<br />
Te Pòeng as villages <strong>in</strong>land on the Papuan side of the border. Of<br />
course, not all of these names are necessarily contemporaneous:<br />
s<strong>in</strong>ce villages traditionaly move around every few years,<br />
sometimes keep<strong>in</strong>g the same name and sometimes chang<strong>in</strong>g, one<br />
settlement may be referred to by more than one name, especially<br />
when recalled over five decades of time.<br />
- Donohue 2002 Ts:[16], n. 13.<br />
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