Kara language (Papua New Guinea)
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| Kara | ||
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| Spoken in: | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 5,000 (as of 1998)[1] | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian New Ireland Lavongai-Nalik Kara |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map (group) | |
| ISO 639-3: | leu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people (as of 1998)[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Kara", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition, Dallas: SIL.
- Schlie, Perry (1989). "Breaking in on the Kara net", in Karl Franklin (ed.): Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL, pp. 73–82.
- Schlie, Perry. "Kara Organised Phonology Data".
- Schlie, Perry; Virginia Schlie (1993). "A Kara phonology", in John M. Clifton (ed.): Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2. Ukarumpa: SIL, pp. 99–130.
- Schlie, Virginia (1989). "Ways and means of communication in Kara", in Karl Franklin (ed.): Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL, pp. 39–46.
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