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Narak

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: nac

Population	6,220 (2000 census). 70% monolingual.
Region	Western Highlands Province, Hagen District, middle Jimi near Tabibuga.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 9, reference number 421
Alternate names	Ganja
Dialects	Similar to Maring [mbw], North Wahgi [whg], Kandawo [gam]. No significant dialect differences.
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Chimbu-Wahgi, Jimi
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Positive attitude. Some also use Tok Pisin [tpi] or English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 15%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. Transfer primer from Tok Pisin. 10% can write Narak. NT: 1981.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Whistle speech reported. SOV. Swidden agriculturalists: coffee. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CAHILL, Michael, author. 2011. "Tonal Diversity in Languages of Papua New Guinea."  

HAINSWORTH, C. Joan, author. 1972. "Narak noun possession and morphophonemic rules."

HAINSWORTH, C. Joan, author. 1976. "Is this sound written as a vowel or a consonant?."

HAINSWORTH, C. Joan; JOHNSON, Kathleen, authors. 1980. Narak (Western Highlands Province).

HAINSWORTH, Joan, author. 1992. Narak Organised Phonology Data.  

Vernacular Publications

Dukuma sá eys-pa jiñji. 2002.

Káno. 1973.

Kena pokis ere kulokuló bang nanoko yey. 2001.

Kisim save long tok narak (Learn to read and write Narak). 1999.

Kulokuló wombaye ‘Kupuli kali langgindo-ko’ jiykañiy. 1996.

Kunáy?. 1975.

Míy wewé boy. 1999.

Nó bé yewandipiñ-mal. 1975.

Nó yemoñ-mal. 1975.

Pepi bólo 1-4. 1974.

Womba-kiy konggomale. 1976.

Yuwa Pelendo yewandiy-mal buk 2: tungga 8-14. 2002.

Yuwa Pelendo yewandiy-mal buk 3, Tungga 15-18: Yuwa Pelendo dimo Aprika tambiy sá Kónggo-pa jiñji, tím nowandiy. Konggomale tím kañjik wíyo eriki moro. 2002.

Yuwa Pelendo yewandiy-mal buk 4, tungga 19-22: Yuwa Pelendo dímo Aprika tambiy sá Kónggo-pa jiñji, tím nowandiy. Konggomale tím kañjik wíyo eriki moro. 2002.