Nalik language

Nalik
Region New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 unknown (5,100 cited 1990 census)[1]
Dialects
Laxudumau?
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nal
Glottolog nali1244[2]

The Nalik language is spoken by 5,000 or so people, based in 17 villages in Kavieng District, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language with an SVO phrase structure.

Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, may be a transitional dialect to Kara or a separate language.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nalik at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nalik". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

Volker, Dr. Craig. The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. ISBN 0-8204-3673-9.