Ma Manda language

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Sauk
Ma Manda
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Morobe Province
Native speakers
1,500 (2011) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 skc
Glottolog sauk1252

Sauk, or Ma Manda, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea.

Many works on this language have conducted by Ryan Pennigton, include a detailed grammar that was published 2016. [2]

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Sauk language can refer to either:

References

  1. Sauk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Pennington, Ryan (2016). A grammar of Ma Manda: a Papuan language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PhD thesis thesis). James Cook University.