McElhanon Kenneth A. Some grammatical comparisons of the Finisterre-Huon languages, New Guinea

Canberra: Australian National University, 1973. — 94 p. — (Pacific Linguistics B 22).The non-Austronesian Finisterre-Huon languages are spoken by the inhabitants of the Finisterre and Saruwaged mountain ranges in the south-eastern portion of the Madang District and the northern portion of the Morobe District, New Guinea (see map). Preliminary lexical studies utilizing basic diagnostic vocabulary lists together with the inspection method of recognizing probable cognates resulted in a hypothesis that these languages constituted a single micro-phylum. In a later study these languages were demonstrated to be genetically related to the languages of a posited Central and South New Guinea Phylum which stretched eastward from Etna Bay in West Irian to the Papuan Gulf in Papua. These two groups and the Binandere Family were combined into a single phylum, the Trans-New Guinea Phylum.