Tigak language

Tigak language
Tigak
Spoken in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers 6,000  (1991)
Language family
Writing system Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tgc

Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (as of 1991)[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.

References

  1. ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth edition ed.). Dallas: SIL. 



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