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Angal

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: age

Population  18,600 (2000).
Region  Southern Highlands Province, Mendi area, north into Mendi Valley, west into Lai Valley, east bank, west of Mt. Giluwe.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 9, reference number 416
Alternate names   East Angal, Mendi
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, Engan, Angal-Kewa
Language development  Bible portions: 1990.
Comments  SOV: Time-Subject-Object-Location-Verb. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

RULE, Joan, author. 1965. "A comparison of certain phonemes of the languages of the Mendi and Nembi Valleys, Southern Highlands, Papua."