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(Redirected from Tabar language) Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea Not to be confused with Mandara language (Chadic).
Mandara
Tabar
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionTabar Group, New Ireland Province
Native speakers4,000 (2000 census)
Language familyAustronesian
Dialects
  • Simberi
  • Tatau
  • Tabar
Writing systemLatin
Language codes
ISO 639-3tbf
Glottologmand1440

Mandara, also known as Tabar, 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. Recently, a written form of Mandara has been made by a Korean missionary. So far, about 3,000 people are literate in this form of Mandara, and a Bible has been published in it as well.

References

  1. ^ Mandara at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Brown, Keith, ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (PDF). Elsevier. p. i. ISBN 978-0-08-044854-1.
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Official languages
Major Indigenous
languages
Other Papuan
languages
Angan
Awin–Pa
Binanderean
Bosavi
Chimbu–Wahgi
New Ireland
Duna–Pogaya
East Kutubuan
East Strickland
Engan
Eleman
Ok–Oksapmin
Teberan
Tirio
Turama–Kikorian
Larger families
Sign languages
Meso-Melanesian languages
Willaumez
Bali-Vitu
New Ireland–
Northwest
Solomonic
Tungag–Nalik
Tabar
Madak
St. George
Northwest
Solomonic
  • * indicates proposed status
  • ? indicates classification dispute
  • † indicates extinct status
Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages
SHWNG
Halmahera Sea
Ambel–Biga
Maya–Matbat
Maden
As
South Halmahera
Cenderawasih
Biakic
Yapen
Southwest
Oceanic
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Saint Matthias
Temotu
Utupua
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Reefs–Santa Cruz
Southeast
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Malaita–
San Cristobal
Western
Oceanic
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Kimbe
New Ireland–
Northwest
Solomonic
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Tabar
Madak
St. George
Northwest
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Jayapura
 ?
Schouten
Huon Gulf
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Papuan Tip
Nuclear
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Southern
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Maewo–Ambae–
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Espiritu Santo
Nuclear
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Oceanic
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Erromango
Tanna
Loyalties–
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Loyalty Islands
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Micronesian
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Pohnpeic
Chuukic
Pohnpeic
Central Pacific
West
East
Polynesian
Nuclear
Polynesian
Samoic
Eastern
Futunic
Tongic
  • * indicates proposed status
  • ? indicates classification dispute
  • † indicates extinct status


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