Infobox Language name Sursurunga speakers 3,000 region New Ireland island New Ireland familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 New Ireland languages New Ireland fam5 Patpatar Tolai languages Patpatar Tolai iso3 sgz Sursurunga is an Oceanic language of New Ireland island New Ireland . Number Sursurunga is famous for having a five way grammatical number distinction. The numbers beside singular, dual number dual , and plural have been called trial number trial and quadral number quadral Hutchisson 1986 however, these numbers, which only occur on pronouns, indicate a minimum of three and four, not exactly three and four the way the dual indicates exactly two. ref Corbett, Greville G., Number, Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics, P240.8.C67 2000, ISBN 0 521 64016 4 ref They are equivalent to a few and several , and Corbett has called them lesser paucal number paucal and greater paucal. The trial cannot be used for dyadic kinship term s, whereas the quadral is used for two or three such pair relationships. See also New Ireland languages Patpatar Tolai languages References reflist Category Languages of New Ireland Province Category Meso Melanesian languages au lang stub de Sursurunga fr Sursurunga pms Lenga Sursurunga pt L ngua sursurunga ... more details
Infobox language family name Patpatar Tolai region New Ireland island New Ireland familycolor Austronesian fam2 Malayo Polynesian languages Malayo Polynesian fam3 Oceanic languages Oceanic fam4 Meso Melanesian languages Meso Melanesian ? fam5 New Ireland languages New Ireland The dozen Patpatar Tolai languages are a group of New Ireland languages spoken on the island of New Ireland island New Ireland in Papua New Guinea . Components A 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database ref http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian research.php Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database ref found that Minigir, of the Mono Uruava languages , is closer to Kuanua than Kuanua is to the other Patpatar Tolai languages. The Mono Uruava languages will therefore be included here, though the other languages were not evaluated. Siar Lak language Siar Lak Patpatar Minigir Patpatar language Patpatar Kuanua Minigir Kuanua language Kuanua Minigir language Minigir Lunga Lunga, of the Mono Uruava languages The other Mono Uruava languages are Mono language Solomon Islands Mono , Torau language Torau , and Uruava language Uruava . The other traditional Patpatar Tolai languages are Guramalum language Guramalum , Konomala language Konomala , Kandas language Kandas , Label language Label , Ramoaaina language Ramoaaina , Sursurunga language Sursurunga , and Tangga language Tangga .The Tangga language is spoken by about 13 000 people on Tanga and Feni islands and on Sena,Muliama and Varangansau villages in the Tanglamet area of Namatanai. References Reflist Category Languages of Papua New Guinea Category Meso Melanesian languages ... more details
is not a language spoken in Africa. ref and in Sursurunga language Sursurunga Hutchisson .... While not all of these languages are adequately attested, it turns out that Sursurunga instead has ... more details
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