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Qaqet

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Region
  
New Britain

Language family
  
Baining Qaqet

Glottolog
  
qaqe1238

Native speakers
  
(6,400 cited 1988)

ISO 639-3
  
byx

Qaqet (Kakat, Makakat, Maqaqet), or Baining, is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

According to Parker and Parker (1974), Qaqet has the following consonantal inventory:

It also has a vowel inventory of /i u ɛ a o/ and three diphthongs, /ai au ɛi/.

References

Qaqet Wikipedia


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