Takia language
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| Takia | ||
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| Spoken in: | Papua New Guinea | |
| Region: | Madang Province | |
| Total speakers: | 19,619 (2003 SIL) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Western North New Guinea Ngero-Vitiaz Vitiaz Bel Nuclear Bel Northern Nuclear Bel Takia |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 639-3: | tbd | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Takia is an Austronesian language spoken by about 20,000 people on Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Children are being discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by Tok Pisin and English.
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