Malol language

Malol
Malol
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers	(4,600 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Schouten Siau Malol; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mbk
Glottolog	malo1245

Malol is an Austronesian language of the Malol village area (3°05′57″S 142°13′36″E / 3.099291°S 142.226754°E / -3.099291; 142.226754 (Mainyeu (Malol))) in Mainyen ward, West Aitape Rural LLG, coastal Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. Malol is spoken by an estimated 4,600 speakers.

Features

Malol has 5 vowels and 14 consonants. Grammatically, the language uses SVO constituent order. Its closest relative is Sissano, of which it was considered a dialect until around 2005.

External links

Paradisec has a number of collections that include Malol materials

References

1 2 3 Malol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
↑ van de Berg, René (July 2023). Un-Austronesian features of Malol, an Oceanic language of PNG. Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL13), 2021 At: Edinburgh – via ResearchGate.

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[e25-1] 1 2 3 Malol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[UN-PNG-2] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

[3] van de Berg, René (July 2023). Un-Austronesian features of Malol, an Oceanic language of PNG. Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL13), 2021 At: Edinburgh – via ResearchGate.