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

Nukumanu

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3nuq

Population  700 (2003 SIL).
Region  Bougainville Province, Atolls District, Nukumanu Atoll.
Alternate names   Tasman
Dialects  Tryon says distinct from Takuu [nho] (Nukuria) in Papua New Guinea and Luangiua (Ontong Java [ojv]) in Solomon Islands. Speakers have contact with Luangiua.
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Central Pacific, East Fijian-Polynesian, Polynesian, Nuclear, Samoic-Outlier, Ellicean