Nak

Also Known As: Nakonai Description: The Nakanai language is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal [n] has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by [l]. Nakanai syllables may be of the shape V or CV, with no codas or consonant clusters to be found anywhere in the language...... full article at Wikipedia Location of Nakanai Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/nak/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png Rosetta Document Collection Genesis Translation: 1 (download) (browse)

Overview Main Country: Papua New Guinea Spoken In: Regions: Oceania ISO 639-3 Code: nak Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Austronesian Group     Malayo-Polynesian Group       Central-Eastern Group         Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Group           Oceanic Group             Western Oceanic Group               Meso Melanesian Group                 Willaumez Group                   Nakanai Language