Makolkol language
Makolkol is a possible Papuan language formerly spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Stebbins (2010) reports it is unattested.[4] Palmer (2018) treats it as unclassified.[5] It is not known if it was related to the neighboring Baining languages.
| Makolkol | |
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| (unattested) | |
| Region | New Britain |
| Extinct | 7 cited 1988;[1] apparently extinct by 2003[2] |
unclassified
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zmh |
| Glottolog | mako1250[3] |
References
- Makolkol language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Makolkol at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Makolkol". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Dunn, Michael. 2012. Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history.
- Palmer, Bill (2018). "Language families of the New Guinea Area". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 1–20. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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