Infobox Language name Lihir speakers 13,000 region Lihir Island , off New Ireland island New Ireland familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 New Ireland languages New Ireland fam5 Patpatar Tolai languages Patpatar Tolai fam6 Tabar languages Tabar iso3 lih The Lihirlanguage is an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir Group Lihir island group, in New Ireland Province , Papua New Guinea . It is notable for having 5 levels of grammatical number singular, dual, trial, paucal and plural. ref name corbett cite book title Number series Cambridge textbooks in linguistics last Corbett first Greville G. authorlink coauthors year 2000 publisher Cambridge University Press location isbn 0521649706, 9780521649704 page 25 pages 358 url http books.google.co.uk books?id 7jc pgAFcE0C&pg PA25&dq lihir language&lr lang en 7Clang fr 7Clang de&hl ko&cd 4 v onepage&q lihir 20language&f false accessdate 2010 05 26 ref It is questionable whether the trial is indeed trial or whether it is paucal, leaving there being a paucal and a greater paucal. ref name corbett Either way, this is the highest number of levels of grammatical number in any language. ref name corbett This distinction appears in both independent pronouns and possessor suffixes. ref name corbett There is some variation in pronunciation and orthography between the main island Lihir Island Niolam , and some of the smaller islands in the group. References references External links http www.ethnologue.com show language.asp?code lih Ethnologue Report on Lihir http www.sil.org pacific png pubs 0000202 Lihir.pdf Lihir Phonology, from SIL Category Languages of New Ireland Province Category Meso Melanesian languages au lang stub PapuaNewGuinea stub pt L ngua lihir ... more details
Lihir can refer to Lihir Group , an island group in Papua New Guinea Lihir Island , the main island in the group Lihirlanguage , an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir island group Lihir Gold Lihir Gold Ltd. , gold mining company disambig ... more details
Image Lihir Group NASA.jpg thumb 280px Lihir Group seen from space Mahur Island not visible Lihir Group is an island group in Papua New Guinea , located north of New Ireland island New Ireland , at coord 3 S 152.5833333 E display inline,title . It is a part of Bismarck Archipelago . Largest island of the group is Lihir Island Lihir aka Niolam , other islands include Mali, Mahur Island Mahur , Masahet Island Masahet and Sanambiet Island Sanambiet . External links http www.pbase.com fmanseau lihir island Photos from Lihir Island http www.lihir.com.pg Lihir Gold Mine Islands of Papua New Guinea Category Islands of Papua New Guinea Category New Ireland Province PapuaNewGuinea geo stub als Lihir Inseln de Lihir Inseln nl Lihir ru sv Lihir arna ... more details
Lihir Gold Limited was a gold mining company with operations in Papua New Guinea , Australia and West Africa . The company, incorporated in Papua New Guinea in June 1995, and named Lihir as its first project was to raise capital to build the Lihir Island gold mine was merged with Newcrest Mining at the end of August 2010 last day for trading of Lihir Gold shares was August 30, 2010 . ref cite news url http www.theglobeandmail.com globe investor investment ideas streetwise last day of trading for lihir gold article1689999 title Last day of trading for Lihir Gold date 2010 08 30 location Toronto work The Globe and Mail first Tim last Kiladze ref Merger talks were first made known in April 2010, with an announcement by Newcrest Mining . On Monday August 23, 2010 the A 9.5 billion takeover offer by Newcrest Mining was approved after 99.86 of Lihir Gold Shareholders voted in favour of it. ref cite web url http www.foxbusiness.com markets 2010 08 23 lihir gold shareholders approve merger newcrest mining title Lihir Gold Shareholders Approve Merger With Newcrest Mining date 2010 08 23 ref The takeover received national court of Papua New Guinea approval on August 28, 2010. ref http www.domain b.com industry Mining 20100828 takeover.html Court clears Newcrest s 22.3 bn Lihir Gold takeover ref The acquisition made Newcrest Mining the worlds fifth largest gold producer with a production of 2.8 million ounces of gold 2009 combined production of the 2 companies . ref http www.newcrest.com.au upload 647 4x1x201014638PM.pdf Newcrest Proposed Combination with Lihir Newcrest website, published 1 April 2010, accessed 9 May 2010 ref References reflist Category Gold mining companies pl Lihir Gold ... more details
Infobox islands name Lihir image name LihirNASA.jpg image caption NASA Space Shuttle image of Lihir Island. locator map Location map Papua New Guinea lat deg 3 lat min 7 lat sec 30 lat dir S lon deg 152 lon min 38 lon sec 30 lon dir E native name Niolam native name link location Melanesia coordinates coord 3 7 30 S 152 38 30 E region PG type isle source GNS enwiki display inline archipelago Bismarck Archipelago total islands major islands area km2 length km 22 width km 14.5 highest mount elevation m 700 country flag Papua New Guinea country admin divisions title Province country admin divisions New Ireland Province country largest city country largest city population population 18,000 population as of density km2 ethnic groups Lihir Island aka Niolam Island is the largest island in the Lihir Group Lihir group of islands, 22 km long and 14.5 km wide, in Papua New Guinea s New Ireland Province . It consists of a complex of several overlapping basalt ic stratovolcano es rising 700m above sea level. While the volcanoes are not currently active, geothermal activity is still present. The island is in what was the forearc basin associated with the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North Bismarck Plate . ref name osu cite web url http volcano.oregonstate.edu book export html 138 title Submarine Volcanoes publisher Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University accessdate 9 March 2011 ref Subduction stopped about 10 million years ago with the collision of the Ontong ... degrees Celsius. The population of the Lihir Group increased from 12,570 in 2000 ref PNG .... The economic focal point of the Island is the Lihir Gold Mine. The mine is operated by Newcrest ... 01 Global Volcanism Program Lihir http lihir.infomine.com Lihir mine information http www.forestpeoples.org ... fmanseau lihir island Photos from Lihir Island Image Lihir Group NASA.jpg thumb left 280px Lihir ... Complex volcanoes de Niolam fr Lihir nl Lihir ... more details
Infobox airport name Lihir Island Regional Airport image IATA LNV ICAO AYKY center Location map Papua New Guinea width 200 float center caption mark Airplane silhouette.svg marksize 10 label LNV position right lat deg 03 lat min 02 lat sec 32.64 lat dir S lon deg 152 lon min 37 lon sec 40.44 lon dir E small Location of airport in Papua New Guinea small center type Public elevation f approx. 10 elevation m 3 coordinates Coord 03 02 32.64 S 152 37 40.44 E type airport region PG Lihir Island Airport airport codes LNV AYKY is an airport in Londolovit on Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea . The airport has a short unpaved runway long enough to handle a small jet. All flights leave at approximately 4 7am. The airport has significantly upgraded its facilities, which now includes air conditioning, x ray machines and a renovated waiting area. It is assumed that this is because of the introduction of a new international flight to Cairns, Australia, operated by Airlines PNG. ref GCM AYKY ref ref ASN LNV ref Airlines and destinations airport dest list Air Niugini Port Moresby Jacksons International, Lae, Rabaul Airlines PNG Cairns References references Category Airports in Papua New Guinea Category New Ireland Province oceania airport stub PapuaNewGuinea geo stub pl Port lotniczy Lihir ... more details
On Language was a regular column in the weekly New York Times Magazine on the English language discussing popular etymology , new or unusual usages, and other language related topics. The inaugural column was published on February 18, 1979 and it was a regular popular feature. Many of the columns were collected in books. Columnist and journalist William Safire was one of the most frequent contributors from the inception of the column until Safire s death in 2009. He wrote the inaugural On Language column in 1979. ref http www.nytimes.com 2009 10 11 magazine 11FOB onlanguage t.html New York Times On Language The Maven, Nevermore about Safire s legacy ref starting it with the greeting How do you do. This is a new column about language. In more than 30 years, he contributed more than 1300 installments to the column. Safire was succeeded by Ben Zimmer , who wrote the column until its final edition on February 25, 2011. ref http www.nytimes.com 2011 02 27 magazine 27fob onlanguage t.html New York Times On Language The Future Tense ref About the cancellation of the column, the incoming editor of New York Times Magazine Hugo Lindgren explained this and other changes to the magazine It is mine now. I m in charge. We re going to be doing some significant redesign work, and have a newish magazine by the end of January. The big thing is, I want to create a kind of new identity for the front of the book section. That doesn t mean that everything s being tossed out. We re looking at everything and evaluating what sort of fits. ref http nymag.com daily intel 2010 11 new times magazine editor hugo.html New York Magazine New Times Magazine Editor Hugo Lindgren on His Plans Big Subjects, More T, and the End of The Way We Live Now ref References Reflist External links http topics.nytimes.com topics features magazine columns on language index.html A collection of On Language columns published in The New York Times DEFAULTSORT On Language Category English language Category The New York ... more details
About the properties of language in general other uses Language disambiguation File Lakhovsky Conversation.jpg ... Cuneiform is one of the first known forms of written language , but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of years at least. Language may refer either to the specifically ... of such a system of complex communication. The scientific study of language in any of its senses ... salient examples, but natural language s can also be based on visual rather than auditory stimulus physiology stimuli , for example in sign language s and written language . Code s and other kinds of constructed language artificially constructed communication systems such as those used for programming language computer programming can also be called languages. A language in this sense is a system ... ultimately from Latin lingua , language, tongue , via Old French . ref name AHD cite encyclopedia title language encyclopedia The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language edition 3rd year 1992 location Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Company ref When used as a general concept, language .... Language as a communication system is thought to be fundamentally different from and of much ... a finite number of elements. Language is thought to have originated when early hominids first started ... with an increase in brain volume, and many linguists see the structures of language as having evolved to serve specific communicative functions. Language is neurolinguistics processed in many ... Wernicke s area s. Humans language acquisition acquire language through social interaction in early childhood, and children generally speak fluently when they are around three years old. The use of language ... identity , social stratification and for social grooming and entertainment . The word language ... from sequences of words. Languages language change evolve and diversify over time, and the history ... of languages that descend from a common ancestor is known as a language family . The languages ... more details
Infobox Language name Are states Papua New Guinea region Milne Bay Province , tip of Cape Vogel speakers 1,230 familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Western Oceanic languages Western fam5 Papuan Tip languages Papuan Tip fam6 Kilivila nowrap Nuclear Papuan Tip fam7 Are Taupota languages Are Taupota fam8 Are languages Are iso3 mwc The Are language is an Austronesian language of the eastern Papua New Guinea n mainland, It s spoken by about 1,230 people. External links ethnologue mwc Category Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Category Languages of Papua New Guinea PapuaNewGuinea stub au lang stub fr Are langue hr Are jezik is Are ... more details
Infobox language name Then states CHN region Pingtang County , southern Guizhou speakers 15,000 date 1999 ethnicity familycolor Tai Kadai fam2 Kam Sui languages Kam Sui iso3 tct The Then language also known as Y nghu ng in Chinese alternate spellings T en and Ten is a Kam Sui language spoken in Pingtang County , southern Guizhou . Phonology Yanghuang has 71 consonants total, including those with secondary articulation s. There are a total of 71 rhymes, 9 vowels, and 8 codas Bo 1997 . References Reflist Bo, Wenze. 1997. Yanghuang yu yan jiu A Study of Yanghuang Then . Beijing Zhong yang min zu da xue chu ban she. External links http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian language.php?id 719 Then word list from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database Tai Kadai languages Category Languages of China Category Kam Sui languages tk lang stub fr T en ... more details
Boro language may refer to Bodo language , a Tibeto Burman language spoken in India, official language of Assam state Boro language Ghana , an extinct and unclassified language of Ghana Boro language Ethiopia , an Omotic language of Ethiopia disambig ko ... more details
Koro language may refer to Koro language India Koro language New Guinea Koro language Vanuatu Koro language Mande Jilic languages Nigeria Koro Wachi language Nigeria dab ... more details
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Lele is the name of four different languages Lele language Chad , an Afro Asiatic language Lele language Democratic Republic of the Congo , a Bantu language Lele language Guinea , a Mande language Lele language Papua New Guinea , an Austronesian language The Ly l language of Burkina Faso also goes by the form Lele . disambig ... more details
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