Mamusi language

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Mamusi
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East New Britain Province
Native speakers
(6,000 cited 1985) [1]
Dialects
  • Mamusi
  • Melkoi (Kakuna)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kdf
Glottolog mamu1254

Mamusi is an Austronesian language of East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea.

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References

  1. Mamusi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)