Nalik language

Nalik language
Nalik
Spoken in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers 5,138 (1990)[1]  (date missing)
Language family
Writing system Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nal

The Nalik language is spoken by approximately 5,000 people, based in 17 villages in Kavieng District, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

It is part of the New Ireland languages group, one of the many Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea. The language has an SVO phrase structure. Its ISO code is nal.

Notes

  1. ^ Nalik page on Ethnologue

Bibliography

Volker, Dr. Craig. The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. ISBN 0-8204-3673-9. 



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