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The Trans-New Guinea language family currently occupies most of the interior of New Guinea. This family is possibly the third largest in the world with 400 languages and is tentatively thought to have originated with root-crop agriculture around 10,000 years ago. However, vanishingly little is known about this family鈥檚 history. </p> <p> This project aims to reveal the prehistory of New Guinea using the linguistic comparative method combined with novel computational phylogenetic methods. </p> <p> This website is run by Simon Greenhill in the <a href="http://chl.anu.edu.au/">School of Culture, History and Language</a> and <a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/">College of Asia and the Pacific</a> at the <a href="http://anu.edu.au">Australian National University</a>. </p> <p> Funding for this project was provided by an <a href="http://www.arc.gov.au/">Australian Research Council</a> «DECRA» Discovery Grant <em>Discovering Trans-New Guinea: Revealing the prehistory of New Guinea</em> (#DE120101954) to Simon Greenhill. </p> <h4>Citation:</h4> <p>If you find this project useful in your work, please cite:</p> <blockquote> Greenhill SJ. 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141563">TransNewGuinea.org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages</a>. <i>PLoS ONE</i> 10(10): e0141563. </blockquote> <div class="map"> <img src="https://assets.transnewguinea.org/tng/img/map-600.png" width="600" height="304" class="img-rounded" alt="Map of New Guinea" /> <p class="caption">Map of the Trans-New Guinea Languages.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer class="footer"> <p> © 2025. <a href="http://simon.net.nz">Simon J. 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