Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

Infobox Language
name=Kara
region=New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
speakers=5,000 (as of 1998)Ethnologue.]
familycolor=Austronesian
fam1=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
fam3=Central-Eastern
fam4=Eastern
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Western
fam7=Meso-Melanesian
fam8=New Ireland
fam9=Lavongai-Nalik
script=Latin alphabet
iso2=map (group)
iso3=leu

Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people (as of 1998) in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

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Bibliography

*cite book |author=Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) |year=2005 |chapter= [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=leu Kara] |title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=fifteenth edition |location=Dallas |publisher=SIL
*cite book |author=Schlie, Perry |year=1989 |chapter= [http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=23163 Breaking in on the Kara net] |editor=Karl Franklin (ed.) |title=Studies in Componential Analysis |location=Ukarumpa |publisher=SIL |pages=pp. 73–82
*cite paper |author=Schlie, Perry |year=1996 |title=Kara Organised Phonology Data |url=http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/0000160/Kara.pdf
*cite book |author=Schlie, Perry |coauthors=Virginia Schlie |editor=John M. Clifton (ed.) |year=1993 |chapter= [http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=34138 A Kara phonology] |title=Phonologies of Austronesian languages 2 |location=Ukarumpa |publisher=SIL |pages=pp. 99–130
*cite book |author=Schlie, Virginia |year=1989 |chapter= [http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/abstract.asp?id=23160 Ways and means of communication in Kara] |editor=Karl Franklin (ed.) |title=Studies in Componential Analysis |location=Ukarumpa |publisher=SIL |pages=pp. 39–46


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