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Siar-Lak

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: sjr

Population	2,080 (2000 census).
Region	Southern New Ireland Province, Namatanai District.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 2, reference number 50
Alternate names	Lak, Lamassa, Lambom, Siar
Classification	Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, Meso Melanesian, New Ireland, South New Ireland-Northwest Solomonic, Patpatar-Tolai
Language use	Also use Tok Pisin [tpi] or English.
Language development	Bible portions: 2007.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SVO.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ERDMAN, Laurens B., author. 1991. A grammatical sketch of a Siar text from the perspective of two strata.

ERDMAN, Laurens B.; GORING, Timothy, authors. 1992. "Is it real? Or is it even realis?."

ROWE, Karen, author. 2001. Siar Lak Organised Phonology Data.  

ROWE, Karen, author. 2005. Siar-Lak grammar essentials.  

Vernacular Publications

Kam usrai on e Kande. 2008.