Mauwake

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A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
mhl
Alternate Names
Mawake, Ulingan
Autonym
Mauwake
User Population

2,390 (2003 SIL). Ethnic population: 4,000 (2000 census).

Location

Madang province: Bogia district.

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Language Status

6b (Threatened).

Classification
Trans-New Guinea, Madang, Croisilles, Northern Adelbert, Kumil-Tibor, Kumil
Typology

SOV; Nominative-Accusative; Agglutinative morphology; Verbal affixation marks tense, aspect, mood, sequentiality vs. simultaneity of actions, subject, beneficiary, and distributive; Tenses: 3 (Past, Present, Future), Aspects: 2 (Perfective, Imperfective); Consonants: 14, Vowels: 5 (Berghäll 2010).

Language Use

Most children learn Tok Pisin [tpi] as their first language (Berghäll 2010). Some young people, all adults. All also use Tok Pisin [tpi] (Berghäll 2010). Used as L2 by Kowaki [xow], Musar [mmi].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Grammar. NT: 1998.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Mauwake
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Christian, traditional religion.