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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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