Takia language

Takia
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
(undated figure of 40,000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tbc
Glottolog taki1248[2]

Takia is an Austronesian language spoken on Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been syntactically restructured by Waskia, a Papuan language spoken on the island.

Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by Tok Pisin and English.

References

  1. Takia at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Takia". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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