Kara language (Papua New Guinea)
| Kara | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 5,000 (1998)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Dialects |
Laxudumau?
|
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
leu |
| Glottolog |
kara1486[2] |
Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people in 1998[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, may be a transitional dialect to Nalik or a separate language.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kara (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Bibliography
- Schlie, Perry (1989). "Breaking in on the Kara net". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 73–82.
- Schlie, Perry (1996). "Kara Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
- 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.