Tiang language

The Tiang language also known as Djaul is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea.[3]

For the African animal known as a Tiang, see Korrigum.
Tiang
Native toPapua New Guinea
Native speakers
(790 cited 1972)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tbj
Glottologtian1237[2]

Overview

It is spoken on Dyaul Island and in 1972 there were 790 speakers reported by Beaumont.[3] On that island Tigak and Tok Pisin are also spoken. Tigak is predominant on the northern half of the island and Tiang on the southern half.[4] The former may be related closely to Tiang. It is also spoken on some other nearby areas in New Ireland Province. The language has a subject-verb-object structure order.[3] The people that speak this language are swidden agriculturalists.[3] There is very little data available for this language.[5]

gollark: That would be cool.
gollark: If we had ridiculously advanced future tech of some sort, you could just, say, convert half the moon into a giant sunshade at one of the Lagrange points.
gollark: I think mostly fiddling with the atmosphere in various ways.
gollark: No, there are other ideas.
gollark: There are a bunch of geoengineering-y ideas proposed to hopefully somewhat unbreak things, but those are apparently thought of as more of a last resort.

References
  1. Tiang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tiang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Tiang, Ethnologue, 2012, access date 05-01-2012
  4. Languages of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea map 2, reference number 34, 2012, access date 05-01-2012
  5. The Nalik language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Craig Alan Volker, 1998, Peter Lang Press/University of Virginia, ISBN 0-8204-3673-9, ISBN 978-0-8204-3673-9


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