Laxudumau language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
Austronesian language
Laxudumau | |
---|---|
Lakurumau | |
Region | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 800 (2020)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lxm |
Glottolog | laku1238 |
ELP | Lakurumau |
Laxudumau is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Coordinates: 2°52′59″S 151°15′00″E / 2.883°S 151.250°E / -2.883; 151.250 |
Laxudumau (Lakurumau), spoken in the village of Lakurumau on the island of New Ireland,[2] is an Austronesian language transitional between Nalik and Kara.
Notes
- ^ Laxudumau at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- ^ Mazzitelli, Lidia Federica (2020). "Documentation of Lakurumau: Making the Case for One More Language in Papua New Guinea". Language Documentation & Conservation. 14: 215–237. hdl:10125/24922.
| |||||||||||||||||||
|
Official languages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Major Indigenous languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other Papuan languages |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sign languages |
This article about Meso-Melanesian languages is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |