Karian language

Karian (Karen), also called Bilakura, is a nearly extinct Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Boia and Barto villages. Some speakers also live in Malas, a Manep-speaking village.[2]

Karian
Bilakura
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
34 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bql
Glottologbila1257
ELPBilakura
Bilakura is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

References

  1. Karian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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