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Mauwake MALA Language
Mauwake (Mawake), or Ulingan, is a Papuan languages, Papuan language spoken in Almami Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in several villages along the north coast of Madang province, which lies in the north-east of Papua New Guinea. Distribution There are 15 villages where Mauwake is the main language, seven of them on or near the coast along a stretch of 15 km between the Kumil River, Kumil and Nemuru rivers, and up to 12 km inland from the coast. Malala () and Ulingan () in Almami Rural LLG are the main Mauwake villages. Mauwake is principally spoken about 120 km northwest of Madang town, an area of about 100 square kilometres. Dialects areas are: *''Ulingan dialect'' (in Ulingan (), Sikor (), and Meiwok () villages) *''Papur dialect'' (in Papur (), Tarikapa (), and Yeipamir () villages) *''Muaka dialect'' (in Muaka (), Moro (), Mereman (), Sapara, Aketa (), Amiten () / Susure / Wakoruma (), and Saramun () villages) History Mauwake speakers generally ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east. Its capital, on its southern coast, is Port Moresby. The country is the world's third largest list of island countries, island country, with an area of . The nation was split in the 1880s between German New Guinea in the North and the Territory of Papua, British Territory of Papua in the South, the latter of which was ceded to Australia in 1902. All of present-day Papua New Guinea came under Australian control following World War I, with the legally distinct Territory of New Guinea being established out of the former German colony as a League of Nations mandate. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |