Mandara language
Encyclopedia
Mandara is an Austronesian
language spoken on the Tabar Group
of islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
. Three dialects have been identified, Simberi, Tatau and Tabar, corresponding to the three main islands in the group.
Austronesian languages
The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia that are spoken by about 386 million people. It is on par with Indo-European, Niger-Congo, Afroasiatic and Uralic as one of the...
language spoken on the Tabar Group
Tabar Group
The Tabar Group is an island group in Papua New Guinea, located 40 km north of New Ireland. It is a part of the Bismarck Archipelago. The Tabar group consists of a short chain of three main islands - Tabar Island in the south, Tatau Island in the center, and Simberi Island in the north - as...
of islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
. Three dialects have been identified, Simberi, Tatau and Tabar, corresponding to the three main islands in the group.