Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

Kara
Region New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
5,000 (1998)[1]
Dialects
  • Laxudumau?
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 leu
Glottolog kara1486[2]

Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people in 1998[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, may be a transitional dialect to Nalik or a separate language.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Kara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kara (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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