AUSTRONESIAN-ENGLISH

The Tigak language of New Ireland

Book information

Language
austronesian-english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5440253 bytes)
Pages
\176
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42

Description

Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1979. — xi + 163 p. — ISBN 0858831872.Tigak is an Austronesian language in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by just over 4000 people living in the northern part of the mainland of New Ireland (extending about 30 miles south of Kavieng). There are four main dialects, Central, Southern, Island and Western. This study is primarily concerned with the Central dialect.

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