Sursurunga language
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Oceanic language
| Sursurunga | |
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| Region | New Ireland |
Native speakers | (3,000 cited 1991)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgz |
| Glottolog | surs1246 |
Sursurunga is an
Oceanic language of New Ireland
.
Number
Sursurunga is famous for having a five-way
paucal and greater paucal. The trial cannot be used for dyadic kinship terms
, whereas the quadral is used for two or three such pair relationships.
References
- ^ Sursurunga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ISBN 0-521-64016-4
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- * indicates proposed status
- ? indicates classification dispute
- † indicates extinct status
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