Gedaged language

Austronesian

• Gedaged

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Gedaged (also Graged / Krangket, Ragetta, Star, Mitebog, Bel ) is a Papua New Guinea in the Astrolabe Bay and coastal villages around Madang of 6,954 ( 2003 SIL) Austronesian language spoken. 1975 were reported by SIL still 2,764 speakers. Within the country, mostly referred to as Bel, it has as a church language of today's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea on the group of native speakers also important. With the preamble Bel is also referred to various unrelated languages ​​of the region, including also Takia and Marik.

Grammar

Possibly due to close contact with neighboring speakers of Papuan has at the Bel languages ​​of sentence structure, altered from the usual for other languages ​​of the language family subject- verb-object to subject-object -verb order.

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Gedaged for a long time already has a written form. 1925-1935 were translated first parts of the Bible. A complete edition of the New Testament followed in 1960. Approx. 25 to 50 percent of the speakers can also read the language and writing.