Social:Makolkol language

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Makolkol
(unattested)
RegionNew Britain
Extinct7 cited 1988;[1] apparently extinct by 2003[2]
unclassified
  • Makolkol
Language codes
ISO 639-3zmh
Glottologmako1250[3]

Makolkol is a possible Papuan language formerly spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Stebbins (2010) reports it is unattested.[4] Palmer (2018) treats it as unclassified.[5] It is not known if it was related to the neighboring Baining languages.

References

  1. Makolkol language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Makolkol at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Makolkol". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mako1250. 
  4. Dunn, Michael. 2012. Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history.
  5. Palmer, Bill (2018). "Language families of the New Guinea Area". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 1-20. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.