Tigak language

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Tigak
Spoken in: New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Total speakers: 6,000 (as of 1991)[1]
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Central-Eastern
   Eastern
    Oceanic
     Western
      Meso-Melanesian
       New Ireland
        Lavongai-Nalik
         Tigak 
Writing system: Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: map (group)
ISO 639-3: tgc
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (as of 1991)[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Ethnologue.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Tigak", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition, Dallas: SIL. 
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