Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics)

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Difference between Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics)

Papuan languages vs. Tone (linguistics)

The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

Similarities between Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics)

Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics) have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Areal feature, Austronesian languages, Morphology (linguistics), New Guinea, Phoneme.

Areal feature

In linguistics, areal features are elements shared by languages or dialects in a geographic area, particularly when the languages are not descended from a common ancestor language.

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Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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Phoneme

A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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The list above answers the following questions

What Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics) have in common
What are the similarities between Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics)

Papuan languages and Tone (linguistics) Comparison

Papuan languages has 168 relations, while Tone (linguistics) has 230. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.26% = 5 / (168 + 230).

References

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