Kele language (New Guinea)
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| Kele | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Manus Island |
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Native speakers
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unknown (600 cited 1982)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sbc |
| Glottolog | kele1258[2] |
Kele or Gele’ is a language spoken in the easterly section of inland Manus Island, New Guinea.[1]
Sample vocabulary
Nouns
Bed: Petlé
Road: Sal
House: Um
Stone: Pat
Verbs
Learn: Penow
Teach: Te-penow
Die: Mat
Kill: Te-mete-i
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kele (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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