TIGAK LANGUAGE

Tigak
Tigak
Region	New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (New Ireland) Tungag–Nalik Tigak; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tgc
Glottolog	tiga1245

Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991)^[2] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.

Phonology

Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:

/r/ can also be realized as [ ɾ] allophonically. Both /k, ɡ/ are back-released as [k̠, ɡ̠].

Two vowels /i u/ in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones [w j].^[3]

^ Tigak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). " Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth ed.). Dallas: SIL. {{ cite book}}: External link in |chapter= ( help)
^ Beaumont, Clive H. (1974). The Tigak Language of New Ireland. Australian National University.{{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

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Tigak
Region	New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1991)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (New Ireland) Tungag–Nalik Tigak
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tgc`
Glottolog	`tiga1245`