Kele language (New Guinea)
See also: Kele language (disambiguation)
| Kele | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Manus Island |
Native speakers | (600 cited 1982)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
sbc |
| Glottolog |
kele1258[2] |
Kele or Gele’ is a language spoken in the easterly section of inland Manus Island, New Guinea.[1]
Sample vocabulary
Nouns
Bed: Petlé
Road: Sal
House: Um
Stone: Pat
Verbs
Learn: Penow
Teach: Te-penow
Die: Mat
Kill: Te-mete-i
References
- 1 2 Kele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kele (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Kaipuleohone's Robert Blust collection includes notes on Kele
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