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Biangai

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: big

Population	1,400 (1991 SIL). 50% monolingual.
Region	Morobe Province, Wau District, Bulolo River headwaters. 7 villages.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 15, reference number 701
Dialects	Ngowiye, Yongolei.
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Southeast Papuan, Goilalan, Kunimaipa
Language use	Some also use Tok Pisin [tpi].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 50%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Literacy rate in L1 dropped due to adult reader deaths and the shift of children to Tok Pisin [tpi]. Literacy rate in L2 remains high because of the number of children attending school. NT: 1985.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Biangai Organised Phonology Data.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Biangai epistolary discourse.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Biangai expository discourse.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Biangai hortatory discourse.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Biangai narrative discourse.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Bianngai procedural discourse.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1977-02. Biangai paragraph types.  

DUBERT, Marjorie, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1977-02. Biangai text.  

DUBERT, Marjorie; DUBERT, Raymond, authors. 1973. Biangai phonemes.  

DUBERT, Marjorie; DUBERT, Raymond, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Biangai focus.  

DUBERT, Marjorie; DUBERT, Raymond, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Biangai lower levels of grammar.  

DUBERT, Marjorie; DUBERT, Raymond, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1981. Dialect survey of the Biangai language.  

DUBERT, Marjorie; DUBERT, Raymond, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1978. Biangai sentences.  

DUBERT, Raymond, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1969. Biangai morphology.  

HEALEY, Alan, editor. 1973. Phonologies of three languages of Papua New Guinea.

Vernacular Publications

Biangairaga meiya logo; Pisintaga meiya logo; Engkelisra mei, kapiyarik 2. 1973.

Biangairaga meiyalogo, Pisintaga meiyalogo, Englishra mei = Biangai - Pidgin - English phrase book. 1970.

Biyangai yelewikyeng. 1973.

Biyangaiwiligi ngeragiyengki yeikyeng keya ngagora. 1975.

K. L. M. N. O. 1967.

Kapiya Biyangai ngagoyeikta sangkelli keya lentemizirik. 1972.

Kapiya Biyangai ngagoyeiktage nayauganariktik. 1976.

Kapiya Biyangai ngagoyeiktage nayaurik. 1975.

Kapiya Biyangai ngagoyeiktage wamenarik. 1975.

Komolang teniyegi yompungaiweli kelikweli. 1969.

Pita moniyeng ngane watamik narik wei. 1971.

Tola keiya seni. 1966.

Winak kapiyarik. 1976.

Wizimarakmarakyang. 1967.