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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Gedaged

Gedaged

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3gdd

Population  6,950 (2003 SIL).
Region  Madang Province; Sek, Yabob, Karkar, and Bagabag islands, Astrolabe Bay, Madang coastal villages area.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 7, reference number 350
Alternate names   Bel, Graged, Mitebog, Ragetta, Rio, Sek, Star, Star-Ragetta, Szeak-Bagili, Tiara
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Ngero-Vitiaz, Vitiaz, Bel, Nuclear Bel, Northern
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–100%. NT: 1960.
Writing system  Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ROBERTS, John R., author. 1992. A Comparison of Possible Lexical Borrowings between Amele and Gedaged.  Available online