Nalik language
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| Nalik | ||
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| Spoken in: | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 5,138 (as of 1990)[1] | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian New Ireland Lavongai-Nalik Nalik |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map (group) | |
| ISO 639-3: | nal | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Nalik language is spoken by approximately 5000 people, based in 17 villages in Kavieng District, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
It is part of the New Ireland languages group, one of the many Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea. The language has an SVO phrase structure. Its ISO code is nal.
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[edit] Bibliography
Volker, Dr. Craig. The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. ISBN 0-8204-3673-9.
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