WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Society cards · West Trans–New Guinea languages
Common card · Society
West Trans–New Guinea languages, a Common card
The West Trans–New Guinea languages are a suggested linguistic linkage of Papuan languages, not well established as a group, proposed by Malcolm Ross in his 2005 classification of the Trans–New Guinea languages.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 13
- Power
- 62
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 900
Power 62 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 5 % of WikiCards cards.
West Trans–New Guinea languages quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the West Trans–New Guinea languages card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ divisions of the languages are also unclear.
Answer
internal. The internal divisions of the languages are also unclear. From the West Trans–New Guinea languages article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The West Trans–New Guinea languages are a suggested linguistic linkage of Papuan languages, not well established as a group, proposed by Malcolm Ross in his ____ classification of the Trans–New Guinea languages.
Answer
2000s. The West Trans–New Guinea languages are a suggested linguistic linkage of Papuan languages, not well established as a group, proposed by Malcolm Ross in his 2005 classification of the Trans–New Guinea languages. From the West Trans–New Guinea languages article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
West Trans–New Guinea languages. West Trans–New Guinea languages 49 · Stade Nungesser 45 · Champaign Downtown Commercial District 40 · Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy 37 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Ross suspects they are an old dialect continuum, because they share numerous features that have not been traced to a single ancestor using comparative historical linguistics.
- The internal divisions of the languages are also unclear.
- William A. Foley considers the TNG identity of the Irian Highlands languages at least to be established.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The West Trans–New Guinea languages article was read about 900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 13: each hit it takes is cut by 5 %.
How to get West Trans–New Guinea languages
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below West Trans–New Guinea languages in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Champaign Downtown Commercial DistrictCommon · History · ATK 40 DEF 22
- Morse Mill, MissouriCommon · Society · ATK 35 DEF 27
- James Henry AshdownCommon · History · ATK 49 DEF 13
- Bernardo CastelloCommon · Arts · ATK 48 DEF 14
- Coolangatta MountainCommon · Nature · ATK 41 DEF 21
- Upper Ammonoosuc RiverCommon · Nature · ATK 47 DEF 15
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Society cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, West Trans–New Guinea languages (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kwamikagami, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
