Tiang language
For the African animal known as a Tiang, see Korrigum.
| Tiang | |
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| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | unknown (790 cited 1972)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tbj |
| Glottolog |
tian1237[2] |
The Tiang language also known as Djaul is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea.[3]
Overview
It is spoken on Dyaul Island and in 1972 there were 790 speakers reported by Beaumont.[3] On that island Tigak and Tok Pisin are also spoken. Tigak is predominant on the northern half of the island and Tiang on the southern half.[4] The former may be related closely to Tiang. It is also spoken on some other nearby areas in New Ireland Province. The language has a subject-verb-object structure order.[3] The people that speak this language are swidden agriculturalists.[3] There is very little data available for this language.[5]
References
- ↑ Tiang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tiang". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 1 2 3 4 Tiang, Ethnologue, 2012, access date 05-01-2012
- ↑ Languages of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea map 2, reference number 34, 2012, access date 05-01-2012
- ↑ The Nalik language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Craig Alan Volker, 1998, Peter Lang Press/University of Virginia, ISBN 0-8204-3673-9, ISBN 978-0-8204-3673-9
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