Tigak

E146926

Tigak is an Austronesian language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea.

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Label Occurrences
Tigak canonical 5

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
alternateName Tigak language
Tigak-Nalik (in some classifications)
belongsTo Western Oceanic languages
continent Oceania
country Papua New Guinea
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Tigak people
glottologName Tigak self-link
hasDomain oral literature
traditional culture
vernacular communication
hasGlottocode tiga1241
hasLinguisticArea Melanesia
hasMorphology agglutinative features
hasNeighboringLanguage Lihir
Mali (New Ireland)
Nalik
Notsi
hasPhonology typical Oceanic consonant and vowel inventory
hasSource Ethnologue
Glottolog
hasTypology predominantly SVO word order
ISO639-3 tgc
isPartOf New Ireland
surface form: New Ireland language cluster
languageBranch Oceanic
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian
languageStatus minority language
languageSubgroup Meso-Melanesian
lexicalSimilarity Lihir language
Nalik language
Notsi language
macroArea Papunesia
region New Ireland Province
spokenIn New Ireland
Papua New Guinea
nearby smaller islands off New Ireland
subfamilyOf Austronesian languages
Meso-Melanesian languages
Oceanic languages
usedFor daily communication within Tigak communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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