Doga language

Doga
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel
Native speakers	(200 cited 2000) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Are–Taupota Are Doga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dgg
Glottolog	doga1238
ELP	Doga
Doga is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

The Doga language is an Austronesian language spoken by about 200 people along Cape Vogel in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

Vocabulary

poro 'pig'

dara-daragi- 'blood'

babine 'woman'

ubi 'long yam'

bata 'four'

biamo 'how many'

asu 'smoke'

iai 'who?'

-ta 'we (incl.)'

-si 'they'

ae- 'leg'

yamogiri 'mosquito'

tamo-na 'one' ^[2]

References

1. Doga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Ross, M.D. Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. C-98. Pacific Linguistics, 1988

Further reading

• Landweer, M. Lynn. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Anuki Language, Cape Vogel, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea." 2001
• Landweer, Martha Lynn. 2006. A Melanesian perspective on mechanisms of language maintenance and shift: case studies from Papua New Guinea. Ph.D., University of Essex. 2 vols.

External links

• Open-access materials on Doga are available through Paradisec, including the Arthur Capell collection (AC2) and the Tom Dutton collection (TD1)