Pomio District

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Pomio District
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Pomio District
Location within Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 5°31′19″S151°32′20″E / 5.522°S 151.539°E / -5.522; 151.539
Country Papua New Guinea
Province East New Britain Province
Capital Pomio
Area
 • Total11,071 km2 (4,275 sq mi)
Population
 (2011 census)
 • Total71,836
 • Density6.5/km2 (17/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+10 (AEST)

Pomio District is a district of East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the four administrative districts that make up the province.

East New Britain Province Place in Papua New Guinea

East New Britain is a province of Papua New Guinea, consisting of the north-eastern part of the island of New Britain and the Duke of York Islands. The capital of the province is Kokopo, not far from the old capital of Rabaul, which was largely destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 1994. East New Britain covers a total land area of 15,816 square kilometres (6,107 sq mi), and the province's population was reported as 220,133 in the 2000 census, rising to 328,369 in the 2011 count. Provincial coastal waters extend over an area of 104,000 square metres. The province's only land border is with West New Britain Province to the west, and it also shares a maritime border with New Ireland Province to the east.

Papua New Guinea Constitutional monarchy in Oceania

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. It is the world's 3rd largest island country with 462,840 km2 (178,700 sq mi).

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Languages

Papuan languages spoken in the district are Ata, Kol, and Sulka.

Papuan languages non-Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands

The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a genetic relationship. The concept of Papuan peoples as distinct from Austronesian-speaking Melanesians was first suggested and named by Sidney Herbert Ray in 1892.

The Ata language, also known as Pele-Ata after its two dialects, or Wasi, is a language isolate spoken on New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. It may be related to the Anêm and Yélî Dnye isolates in a tentative Yele-West New Britain family. There are about 2000 speakers.

The Kol language is a language spoken in eastern New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. There are about 4000 speakers in Pomio District of East New Britain Province, mostly on the southern side of New Britain island.

Austronesian languages spoken in the district are Lote, Mengen, Nakanai, and Tomoip. [1]

Austronesian languages language family of Southeast Asia and the Pacific

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. There are also a few speakers in continental Asia. They are spoken by about 386 million people (4.9%). This makes it the fifth-largest language family by number of speakers. Major Austronesian languages include Malay, Javanese, and Filipino (Tagalog). The family contains 1,257 languages, which is the second most of any language family.

Lote is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people who live around Cape Dampier on the south coast of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. The language was earlier known as Uvol, after the name of a local river, where the first wharf and later airstrip were built.

Mengen and Poeng are rather divergent dialects of an Austronesian language of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

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Central-Inland Pomio Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.

East Pomio Rural LLG Local-level government in Papua New Guinea

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West Pomio-Mamusi Rural LLG Local-level government in Papua New Guinea

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References

  1. ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.


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