Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

Kara
Spoken in	New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	5,000 (1998)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian New Ireland Lavongai–Nalik Kara
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`leu`

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

Notes

Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Kara". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth ed.). Dallas: SIL. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=leu.
Schlie, Perry (1989). "Breaking in on the Kara net". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 73–82. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=23163.
Schlie, Perry (1996). Kara Organised Phonology Data. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/0000160/Kara.pdf.
Schlie, Perry; Virginia Schlie (1993). "A Kara phonology". In John M. Clifton (ed.). Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 99–130. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=34138.
Schlie, Virginia (1989). "Ways and means of communication in Kara". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 39–46. http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=23160.