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.