Mbula language
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Mbula | ||
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Spoken in: | Papua New Guinea | |
Region: | Morobe Province | |
Total speakers: | 2,500 | |
Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Eastern Eastern Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Ngero-Vitiaz Vitiaz Mbula |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | map | |
ISO 639-3: | mna | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Mbula (also known as Mangap-Mbula, Mangaaba, Mangaawa, Mangaava, Kaimanga) is an Austronesian language spoken by around 2,500 people on Umboi Island in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Its basic word order is Subject Verb Object; it has a nominative-accusative case marking strategy.