Tungag

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Tungag

Summary

Tungag is a language[1]. Tungag ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tungag is in the country of Papua New Guinea[3].
  • Tungag's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Tungag's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Tungag is a type of Meso-Melanesian[6].
  • Tungag's writing system is recorded as Latin script[7].
  • Tungag's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tungag language[8].
  • Tungag's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+12000'}[9].
  • Tungag's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+9500'}[10].
  • Tungag's indigenous to is recorded as New Ireland Province[11].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as close front unrounded vowel[12].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as open-mid front unrounded vowel[13].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as close back rounded vowel[14].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as open-mid back rounded vowel[15].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as open back unrounded vowel[16].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as voiceless bilabial plosive[17].
  • Tungag's has phoneme is recorded as voiced bilabial nasal[18].
  • Tungag's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LCM[19].
  • Tungag's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 5 Developing[20].
  • Tungag's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–verb–object[21].
  • Tungag's has grammatical person is recorded as first-person singular[22].
  • Tungag's has grammatical person is recorded as second-person singular[23].
  • Tungag's has grammatical person is recorded as third-person singular[24].

Why It Matters

Tungag ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2] Tungag is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d 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
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007541823105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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