Malol language
| Malol | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province |
Native speakers | (4,600 cited 2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mbk |
| Glottolog | malo1245 |
Malol is an Austronesian language of the Malol village area (3°05′57″S 142°13′36″E / 3.099291°S 142.226754°E) in Mainyen ward, West Aitape Rural LLG, coastal Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[1][2] Malol is spoken by an estimated 4,600 speakers.[1]
Features
[edit]Malol has 5 vowels and 14 consonants. Grammatically, the language uses SVO constituent order. Its closest relative is Sissano, of which it was considered a dialect until around 2005.[3]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Malol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ^ van de Berg, René (July 2023). Un-Austronesian features of Malol, an Oceanic language of PNG. Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL13), 2021 At: Edinburgh – via ResearchGate.
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