Minigir Language (other)
Minigir, which means "tongues", may be: * Lungalunga language * Bilur language Bilur, also ambiguously known as Minigir, is an Oceanic language of the Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Inde ...

Lungalunga Language
Lungalunga (Lunga Lunga), frequently though ambiguously called Minigir, is spoken by a small number of the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. It is often referred to in the linguistics literature as the Tolai "dialect" with an /s/. Classification Lungalunga belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. The most immediate subgroup is the Patpatar–Tolai group of languages which also includes Kuanua (also spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula) and Patpatar (spoken on New Ireland). A "Tolai-Nakanai trade language" reported in the literature was apparently not a pidgin as assumed, but Minigir (Lungalunga) with perhaps some Meramera or Nakanai mixed in.Tom Dutton, "Other pidgins in Papua New Guinea", in Wurm et al. (1996) ''Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas,'' vol 1:216, fn 1 Geographic distribution Lungalunga is spoken on Ataliklikun Bay, in th ...
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