Matalai Rural LLG was created from Wards 15–21 in the
Namatanai Rural LLG
Namatanai Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The LLG is located in Namatanai District and the LLG headquarters is Namatanai.
The LLG is accessible by road from Kavieng
Kavieng is the capital o ...
and Wards 1-2 of
Konoagil Rural LLG in the
Namatanai district of New Ireland.
[Fanamaket (New Ireland) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)] It is located in the South East Coast of
New Ireland Province
New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg (german: Neu-Mecklenburg), and Nova Hibernia, is the northeasternmost province of Papua New Guinea.
Physical geography
The largest island of the province is New Ireland.
Also part of the province a ...
. It has a population of 12,393 as of the 2011 PNG National Census. The current LLG President is Augustine Topi. Languages spoken here are
Sursurunga language
Sursurunga is an Oceanic language of New Ireland.
Number
Sursurunga is famous for having a five-way grammatical number distinction. The numbers beside singular, dual, and plural have been called trial and quadral (Hutchisson 1986); however, t ...
,
Tanglamet language,
Fanamaket language and
Konomala language.
* Sursurunga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
References
Local-level governments of New Ireland Province
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