Nalik language

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Name (Latin)
Nalik language
Other forms of name
Fesoa language
Fessoa language
Lugagon language
See Also From tracing topical name
Melanesian languages
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Papua New Guinea
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q3335387
Library of congress: sh 96008986
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Volker, C.A. The Nalik language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea ... 1997.
  • Lang. atlas of the Pacific area: New Guinea Mainland and ...:p. 14 (Nalik language is shown in the map of New Ireland) also on verso of p. 14, under Austronesian languages (Nalik language is listed)
  • Ethnologue, 12th ed.:p. 854, under Papua New Guinea (Nalik (Lugagon, Fesoa, Fessoa)(Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Northern New Ireland))
Wikipedia description:

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. Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, is transitional to Kara, but is not intelligible to speakers of Nalik.

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