Takia language

Takia
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	unknown (undated figure of 40,000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea ? Ngero–Vitiaz Bel Nuclear Bel Northern Takia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tbc
Glottolog	taki1248[2]

Takia is an Austronesian language spoken on Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been syntactically restructured by Waskia, a Papuan language spoken on the island.

Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by Tok Pisin and English.

References

1. Takia at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Takia". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

• Takia Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)