Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

Kara
Region	New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	5,000 (1998)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (New Ireland) Tungag–Nalik Kara; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Laxudumau?;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	leu
Glottolog	kara1486[2]

Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people in 1998^[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, may be a transitional dialect to Nalik or a separate language.

Notes

1 2 Kara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kara (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Schlie, Perry (1989). "Breaking in on the Kara net". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 73&ndash, 82.
Schlie, Perry (1996). "Kara Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
Schlie, Perry; Virginia Schlie (1993). "A Kara phonology". In John M. Clifton (ed.). Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 99–130.
Schlie, Virginia (1989). "Ways and means of communication in Kara". In Karl Franklin (ed.). Studies in Componential Analysis. Ukarumpa: SIL. pp. 39&ndash, 46.

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