Kilivila language

Kilivila
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Trobriand Islands
Native speakers
20,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kij
Glottolog kili1267[2]

Kilivila (Kiriwina) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken in the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea). It is used in local schools.

External links

References

  1. Kilivila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kilivila". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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