Nalca language

Nalca
Native to Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 16,000 (2013)[1]
Trans–New Guinea

  • Mek

    • Northern
      • Nalca
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nlc
Glottolog nalc1240[2]

Nalca (Naltya, Naltje) is a Papuan language of West Papua. Alternative names are Hmanggona, Hmonono, Kimjal (Kimyal). The latter is also used for Korupun-Sela.

The Nalca language was a completely unwritten language until missionaries from the USA entered the area in the early 1960s. A literacy program was developed, and many people in the Nalca language group learned to read. Roger Doriot from the USA learned the language, and completed the translation of the New Testament of the Bible in 2000 in the Nalca language.

References

  1. ↑ Nalca at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nalca". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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