%0 Journal Article
%A Barlow, Russell
%+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T Some areal loanwords in New Britain, Papua New Guinea : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-4936-F
%7 2025
%D 2025
%X The island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea is home to great linguistic diversity, including not only Austronesian languages from both the Meso-Melanesian and North New Guinea subgroups of Oceanic but also non-Austronesian (or “Papuan”) languages belonging to as many as six differentlineages, including four language isolates. This paper reports on several widespread loanwords that are found in both Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages of New Britain. The words presented here all refer to cultural artifacts and, as such,point to a history of cultural diffusion across the island of New Britain.
%K New Britain, Papua New Guinea, Austronesian, Papuan, loanwords,
lexical borrowing, cultural vocabulary, Wanderwörter, lexical acculturation
%J Language & Linguistics in Melanesia
%V 43
%& 9
%P 9 - 30