Sursurunga

Sursurunga
Spoken in	Papua New Guinea (Region: New Ireland )
speaker	3000 (1991)
Linguistic classification	Austronesian languages Malayo-Polynesian languages Oceanic languages Mesomelanesian languages Sursurunga
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	map
ISO 639-3	sgz

Sursurunga is one of the oceanic languages, which form a subgroup of the Austronesian language family. It is spoken by 3000 people on the island of New Ireland (part of Papua New Guinea ).

Due to an alleged quadral (Hutchisson, 1986), the number system of language has been discussed several times.

literature

• Raymond G. Gordon Jr. (Ed.): Ethnologue: Languages ​​of the World. Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Texas 2005: SIL International. ethnologue.com
• Don Hutchisson: Sursurunga pronouns and the special uses of quadral number. In: Ursula Wiesemann (Ed.): Pronominal systems. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1986, ISBN 3-87808-335-1 ( Continuum , 5).