Tigak language

Tigak
Region New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
6,000  (1991)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tgc
Glottolog tiga1245[2]

Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991)[3] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.

References

  1. Tigak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tigak". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth edition ed.). Dallas: SIL.