The Tiang language also known as Djaul is a language spoken in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

.Tiang
Ethnologue, 2012, access date 05-01-2012

Overview

It is spoken on

Dyaul Island Dyaul Island (also Djaul) is an island in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Its area is 100 km2. The inhabitants live mainly in seven villages, and frequently visit Kavieng, the capital of the province, for supplies or to sell produce an ...

and in 1972 there were 790 speakers reported by Beaumont. On that island Tigak and

Tok Pisin Tok Pisin (,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh ; Tok Pisin ), often referred to by English speakers as "New Guinea Pidgin" or simply Pidgin, is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an ...

are also spoken. Tigak is predominant on the northern half of the island and Tiang on the southern half. The former may be related closely to Tiang. It is also spoken on some other nearby areas in

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 ...

. The language has a subject-verb-object structure order. The people that speak this language are swidden

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. There is very little data available for this language.The Nalik language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Craig Alan Volker, 1998, Peter Lang Press/University of Virginia, ,

References

External links

Map of where Tiang is spoken in Papua New Guinea
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Paradisec The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...

has a collection of Malcolm Ross's
MR1
that includes Tiang language materials. Meso-Melanesian languages Languages of New Ireland Province {{MesoMelanesian-lang-stub