Ma Manda language

Sauk
Sauk
Ma Manda
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	1,600 (2018)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Finisterre Erap Sauk; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	skc
Glottolog	sauk1252

Last updated January 02, 2026

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]

References

↑ Sauk at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ Pennington, Ryan (2016). A grammar of Ma Manda: a Papuan language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PhD thesis thesis). James Cook University.

External links

"Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-07-10.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[e25-1] Sauk at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[grammar-2] Pennington, Ryan (2016). A grammar of Ma Manda: a Papuan language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PhD thesis thesis). James Cook University.

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