Malol language

Malol
Malol
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	West Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers	(4,600 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Schouten Siau Malol; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mbk
Glottolog	malo1245

Malol is an Austronesian language of the Malol village area (3°05′57″S 142°13′36″E / 3.099291°S 142.226754°E / -3.099291; 142.226754 (Mainyeu (Malol))) in Mainyen ward, West Aitape Rural LLG, coastal Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.¹² Malol is spoken by an estimated 4,600 speakers.¹

Features

Malol has 5 vowels and 14 consonants. Grammatically, the language uses SVO constituent order. Its closest relative is Sissano, of which it was considered a dialect until around 2005.³

External links

Paradisec has a number of collections that include Malol materials

References

Malol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
van de Berg, René (July 2023). Un-Austronesian features of Malol, an Oceanic language of PNG. Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL13), 2021 At: Edinburgh – via ResearchGate.

[e25-1] Malol at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[UN-PNG-2] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

[3] van de Berg, René (July 2023). Un-Austronesian features of Malol, an Oceanic language of PNG. Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL13), 2021 At: Edinburgh – via ResearchGate.

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