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Kode Papua: An Omni-Communal Sign Language of Western New Guinea

2026-05-22

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<p>This paper introduces Kode Papua, a hitherto undescribed sign language, whose most remarkable feature is that it is used not only by deaf individuals but also by most or all hearing people across the western half of the island of New Guinea. The paper begins with an account of the settings in which Kode Papua is used, and then provides a brief sketch of selected lexical, grammatical and phonological properties,...

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Literature Corpus work: 27aa9e01-dd16-5ca2-a486-1e18c1315ce9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/35kpn_v1

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