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Tungag

language
Class type of: Meso-Melanesian Q3542085

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
language, modern language[3]
Country
Papua New Guinea[2]
Subclass of
Meso-Melanesian[4]
Ethnologue language status
5 Developing[16]
Has grammatical person
first-person singular, second-person singular, third-person singular[18][19][20]
Has phoneme
close front unrounded vowel, open-mid front unrounded vowel, close back rounded vowel, open-mid back rounded vowel, open back unrounded vowel, voiceless bilabial plosive, voiced bilabial nasal[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Indigenous to
New Ireland Province[8]
Linguistic typology
subject–verb–object[17]
Number of speakers, writers, or signers
+12000, +9500[6][7]
Writing system
Latin script[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en lcm en Tungag en Tungag language en Tungak language ja ラヴォンガイ語 pl Dang pl Lavangai pl Lavongai pl Toangai pl Tungak ru Тунгаг tr lcm
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Ethnologue.com language code
lcm
Exact match
publications.europa.eu
Freebase ID
/m/0jwxx8r
Glottolog code
tung1290
IETF language tag
lcm
ISO 639-3 code
lcm
J9U entity ID
987007541823105171
Topic's main category
Category:Tungag language
WALS lect code
tnk

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🔗 Connections
Has phoneme 7
voiced bilabial nasal, voiceless bilabial plosive, close front unrounded vowel, close back rounded vowel, open-mid front unrounded vowel, open-mid back rounded vowel, open back unrounded vowel
Instance of 2
language, modern language
← Language used 2
Papua New Guinea, New Ireland Province
Country 1
Papua New Guinea
Indigenous to 1
New Ireland Province
Linguistic typology 1
subject–verb–object
Subclass of 1
Meso-Melanesian
Topic's main category 1
Category:Tungag language
Writing system 1
Latin script
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Tungag language
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Summary

Tungag is a language[1].

Related Entities

Papua New Guinea

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Linguistic typology → subject–verb–object
    Subclass of → Meso-Melanesian
    Ethnologue language status → 5 Developing
    Indigenous to → New Ireland Province
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007541823105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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