Papuan Trans-New Guinea Angan family Angan proper Group B Susuami
Language codes
ISO 639-1:
none
ISO 639-2:
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ISO 639-3:
ssu
Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The term Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. ... Trans-New Guinea is a family of languages spoken mainly on the island of New Guinea, which comprises the nation of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, Indonesia. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ...
The Susuami language is a heavily endangered Papuan language, spoken in the resettlement village of Manki along the upper Watut River, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. In 1980 it was estimated at 50 speakers, and faced competition from the several other languages spoken in the village, including distantly-related Hamtai and Angaataha, as well as the usual use of Tok Pisin with outsiders. The term Papuan languages refers to those languages of the western Pacific which are neither Austronesian nor Australian. ... Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...
In 1990 the estimated speakers was a dozen, and children were not learning the language, including the child of the only couple in the village who were both native speakers. Its continued survival is unlikely.
Reference
Bernard Comrie, Stephen Matthews, and Maria Polinsky. The Atlas of Languages. New York: Facts on File. Page 109.
Bernard Comrie (1947-05-23 - ) is a professor at and the director of the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ...
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