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A language of Papua New Guinea

User Population

500 (Dwyer and Minnegal 2007).

Location

Western province: Lake Murray district, north half Upper Strickland census district, east of Strickland river, north of the Samo [smq] language area.

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Dialects

None known. Related to Samo [smq] and Gebusi [goi].

Language Use

Neutral attitudes. Also use English [eng] (Minnegal and Dwyer 2017). Also use Tok Pisin [tpi] (Minnegal and Dwyer 2017).

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 10%–15%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–20%. Bible portions: 1996–1999.

Writing

Latin script [Latn].