Tangga is an
Oceanic language
The approximately 450 Oceanic languages are a branch of the Austronesian languages. The area occupied by speakers of these languages includes Polynesia, as well as much of Melanesia and Micronesia. Though covering a vast area, Oceanic languages ...
of
New Ireland, spoken on
Tanga and
Feni islands and in Sena, Muliama and Varangansau villages in the Tanglamet area of
Namatanai of New Ireland itself. These three locations are highly divergent; children from one understand little to nothing of the others, and adults consider them to be distinct languages, though they recognize their common history of their migration from
Tanga and
Feni to New Ireland.
References
Languages of New Ireland Province
St George linkage
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