Takia is an
Austronesian language spoken on
Karkar Island
Karkar Island is an oval-shaped volcanic island located in the Bismarck Sea, about off the north coast of mainland Papua New Guinea in Madang Province, from which it is separated by the Isumrud Strait. The island is about in length and in widt ...
, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang,
Madang Province
Madang is a Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capi ...
,
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. It has been
syntactically restructured by
Waskia, a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
spoken on the island.
Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by
Tok Pisin
Tok Pisin ( ,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student's Handbook'', Edinburgh ; ), often referred to by English speakers as New Guinea Pidgin or simply Pidgin, is an English-based creole languages, English creole language spoken throughou ...
and English.
Phonology
Voiced stops can be optionally prenasalised word initially as in some dialects.
is heard as before a consonant preceding . The sequence is pronounced word-initially and word-medially as .
References
External links
Takia Vocabulary List(from the World Loanword Database)
*
Kaipuleohone has archived
a Takia word list as part of
Robert Blust's field notes
Bel languages
Languages of Madang Province
Endangered Papuan languages
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