Kâte language
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Kâte is a Papuan language spoken by about 6,000 people in the Finschhafen District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Finisterre–Huon branch of the Trans–New Guinea language family (McElhanon 1975, Ross 2005). It was adopted for teaching and mission work among speakers of Papuan languages by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea in the early 1900s and at one time had as many as 80,000 second-language speakers.
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Kâte | |
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Pronunciation | [kɔtɛ] |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2011)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kmg |
Glottolog | kate1253 |
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