Lihir language
| Lihir | |
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| Region | Lihir Island, off New Ireland |
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Native speakers
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13,000 (2000 census)[1] |
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Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lih |
| Glottolog | lihi1237[2] |
The Lihir language is an Austronesian language spoken in the Lihir island group, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. It is notable for having 5 levels of grammatical number: singular, dual, trial, paucal and plural.[3] It is questionable whether the trial is indeed trial or whether it is paucal, leaving there being a paucal and a greater paucal.[3] Either way, this is the highest number of levels of grammatical number in any language.[3] This distinction appears in both independent pronouns and possessor suffixes.[3] There is some variation in pronunciation and orthography between the main island Niolam, and some of the smaller islands in the group.
References
- ↑ Lihir at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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