Mand language

Not to be confused with Atemble language (Ramu).

Mand
Atemble
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	8 (2015) [1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Madang Southern Adelbert Sogeram West Mand
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ate
Glottolog	atem1241
ELP	Mand
Mand is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .
Coordinates: 5°05′32″S144°46′29″E / 5.092351°S 144.774735°E / -5.092351; 144.774735 (Atemble)

Mand, or Atemble, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

It is spoken in Atemble village ( 5°05′32″S144°46′29″E / 5.092351°S 144.774735°E / -5.092351; 144.774735 (Atemble) ) of Arabaka Rural LLG. ^{[1] [2]}

Phonology

Vowels

^[3]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	( ə )	o
Open		a

References

1. Mand at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
3. Daniels, Don Roger (June 2015). "A Reconstruction of Proto-Sogeram". Alexandria Digital Research Library: 69–70.

External links

• PARADISEC archive of Atemble language materials