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Tigak language

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Native speakers
  
(6,000 cited 1991)

ISO 639-3
  
tgc

Writing system
  
Latin

Glottolog
  
tiga1245

Region
  
New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (New Ireland) Tungag–Nalik Tigak

Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991) in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.

References

Tigak language Wikipedia