Periodic Reporting for period 2 - OUTOFPAPUA (Papuans on the move. The linguistic prehistory of the West Papuan languages.)

New Guinea is one of the linguistically most diverse regions of the world, with more than 900 languages spread over less than 800,000km2. Yet, the Papuan languages of the island of New Guinea are among the least documented in the world, and their genealogical affiliations are...