Stephen Adolphe Wurm AM FASSA FAHA (Hungarian: Wurm István Adolf, pronounced [ˈvurm ˈiʃtvaːn ˈɒdolf]; 19 August 1922 – 24 October 2001) was a Hungarian-born...
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enough to come under the authority of UNESCO. At the instigation of Stephen Wurm the committee resolved to create a research center, the International...
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Papuan languages (section Wurm (1975))
attempts at large-scale genealogical classification, by Joseph Greenberg, Stephen Wurm, and Malcolm Ross. The largest family posited for the Papuan region is...
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composer Ole Wurm (or Worm) (1588–1655), Danish physician and antiquary Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born Australian linguist Theophil Wurm (1868–1953)...
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1919, again by Ray. The precursor of the Trans–New Guinea family was Stephen Wurm's 1960 proposal of an East New Guinea Highlands family. Although broken...
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Danish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Modern Greek, and some Turkish. Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born Australian linguist. "He was a genuine rapid...
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in Papua New Guinea. They were classified as East Papuan languages by Stephen Wurm, but this no longer seems tenable, and was abandoned in Ethnologue (2009)...
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Indo-Pacific, but this is not generally accepted by other linguists. Stephen Wurm states that the lexical similarities between Great Andamanese and the...
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Guinea. The first of these, his Ph.D. research under the supervision of Stephen Wurm, was published as The Ndu languages (1965), and established the existence...
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work, the languages of New Guinea have been intensively studied by Stephen Wurm. Wurm's Trans–New Guinea languages family includes about 70 percent of the...
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