Kilivila language
Kilivila | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Trobriand Islands |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kij |
Glottolog |
kili1267 [2] |
Kilivila (Kiriwina) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken in the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). It is used in local schools.
References
- ↑ Kilivila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kilivila". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.