Tungag

E529780

Tungag is an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea, particularly associated with communities in the New Ireland region.

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Label Occurrences
Tungag canonical 2

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Statements (24)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
language
country Papua New Guinea
geographicDistribution New Ireland region of Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Lavongai NERFINISHED
Lavongai language NERFINISHED
Tungag language NERFINISHED
Tungak NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code lcm
hasLinguisticClassificationNote classification within Oceanic may vary between sources
isSpokenBy Lavongai people NERFINISHED
Tungag people NERFINISHED
languageFamily Austronesian languages
surface form: Austronesian

Oceanic
partOf Papuan Tip languages (broad Austronesian–Oceanic context, approximate)
region New Ireland NERFINISHED
spokenIn New Ireland Province NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
status minority language
subclassOf Austronesian language family NERFINISHED
Oceanic language
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology (approximate)
verb–subject–object word order (VSO) (approximate)
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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