The family ofNorth Huon Gulf languages is a subgroup of theHuon Gulf languages ofPapua New Guinea.

It consists of threelanguages, all of which are distinguished by severe truncation of many inherited roots and the compensatory development of suprasegmentals on vowels: phonemic tone inYabem andBukawa (Ross 1993) and nasalization inKela (Johnson 1994).

• Yabem
• Bukawa
• Kela

• Eckermann, W. (2007).A descriptive grammar of the Bukawa language of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. PL585. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• Johnson, Morris (1994).Kela organised phonology data.
• Ross, Malcolm (1988).Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
• Ross, Malcolm (1993). "Tonogenesis in the North Huon Gulf chain." In Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson, eds.,Tonality in Austronesian languages, 133–153. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 24. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

• North Huon Gulf languages
• Huon Gulf languages
• Languages of Morobe Province
• Tonal languages in non-tonal families

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