Nalik language
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 and member of the New Ireland group of languages with a subject–verb–object (SVO) phrase structure. New Ireland languages are among the first Papua New Guinea languages recorded by Westerners.[2]
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Nalik | |
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Region | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (5,140 cited 1990 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nal |
Glottolog | nali1244 |
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Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, is transitional to Kara, but is not intelligible to speakers of Nalik.