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(Redirected from Pay language) Papuan language of Papua New Guinea Not to be confused with Pai language or Mala language (Nigeria).
Mala
Pay
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers1,400 (2003)
Language familyTrans–New Guinea?
Language codes
ISO 639-3ped
Glottologmala1494

Mala, or Pay, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Mala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Madang languages
Northern Adelbert
(Croisilles)
Manep–Barem
Kumil–Tibor
Numugen
Kaukombar
other
Southern Adelbert
Tomul (Josephstaal)
Sogeram (Wanang)
Kalam
Mabuso
Kokan
Gum
Hanseman
other
Mindjim
Rai Coast
(South Madang)
Awung
Brahman
Evapia
Peka
Nuru
Kabenau
other
Yaganon
(unclear)


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