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Mandara language

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Native to
  
Dialects
  
SimberiTatauTabar

Native speakers
  
4,000 (2000 census)

Writing system
  
Language family
  
AustronesianMalayo-PolynesianOceanicWesternMeso-Melanesian(New Ireland)TabarMandara

Mandara, also known as Tabar, is an Austronesian language spoken on the Tabar Group of islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Three dialects have been identified, Simberi, Tatau and Tabar, corresponding to the three main islands in the group. Recently, a written form of Mandara has been made by a Korean missionary. So far, about 3000 people are literate in this form of Mandara, and a Bible has been published in it as well.

References

Mandara language Wikipedia


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