Sori-Harengan language

Spoken in

Austronesian

  • Malayo -Polynesian oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Manus West Manus

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The Sori - Harenganische language is a West Manus language only spoken by about 570 people on the islands Sori and Harengan, northwest of the coast of the island of Manus, and on the northwest coast of the island of Manus himself, in Papua New Guinea will.

The language is highly threatened with extinction, as they more and more by the official language of Papua New Guinea - is displaced - English and its Kreolvariante Tok Pisin. More and more Sori - Harenganisch - speaking Tok Pisin as their first language and English as a second language, forgetting more and more of their original language Sori - Harenganisch.

Sori - Harenganisch has a subject- verb-object word order.

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