Malol language

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Malol
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers
(4,600 cited 2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mbk
Glottolog malo1245

Malol is an Austronesian language of the Malol village area ( 3°05′57″S142°13′36″E / 3.099291°S 142.226754°E / -3.099291; 142.226754 (Mainyeu (Malol)) ) in Mainyen ward, West Aitape Rural LLG, coastal Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. [1] [2] Malol is spoken by an estimated 4,600 speakers. [1]

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Features

Malol has 5 vowels and 14 consonants. Grammatically, the language uses SVO constituent order. Its closest relative is Sissano, of which it was considered a dialect until around 2005. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Malol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  3. ↑ van de Berg, René (July 2023). Un-Austronesian features of Malol, an Oceanic language of PNG. Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL13), 2021 At: Edinburgh – via ResearchGate.



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