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Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

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Native speakers
  
5,000 (1998)

Writing system
  
Dialects
  
Laxudumau?

ISO 639-3
  
leu

Language family
  
AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicWesternMeso-Melanesian(New Ireland)Tungag–NalikKara

Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people in 1998 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.

References

Kara language (Papua New Guinea) Wikipedia


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