Endangered Languages Project

CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, Pacific
LANGUAGE CODE		ata
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		"Some hypotheses relate Pele-Ata to languages of Britain, especially with Anem, and the East Papuan islands based on typology or pronouns (see Dunn et al. 2005a, 2002, 2005b, Ross 2001) but the resemblances are much too minor to conclude a genealogical relation." (Hammarström, forthcoming)

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Pele-Ata is still being learned by children but all speakers are (at least) bilingual in Tok Pisin and younger speakers' Pele-Ata shows reduced morphology and lexical influences (Yanagida 2004:87-88)."

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "13 villages in the border area of West New Britain and East New Britain in Papua New Guinea."

Pele-Ata