Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

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Kara
Spoken in: New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Total speakers: 5,000 (as of 1998)[1]
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Central-Eastern
   Eastern
    Oceanic
     Western
      Meso-Melanesian
       New Ireland
        Lavongai-Nalik
         Kara 
Writing system: Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: map (group)
ISO 639-3: leu

Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people (as of 1998)[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Ethnologue.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Kara", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition, Dallas: SIL. 
  • Schlie, Perry (1989). "Breaking in on the Kara net", in Karl Franklin (ed.): Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL, pp. 73–82. 
  • Schlie, Perry. "Kara Organised Phonology Data".
  • Schlie, Perry; Virginia Schlie (1993). "A Kara phonology", in John M. Clifton (ed.): Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2. Ukarumpa: SIL, pp. 99–130. 
  • Schlie, Virginia (1989). "Ways and means of communication in Kara", in Karl Franklin (ed.): Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL, pp. 39–46.