Doga language

The Doga language is an Austronesian language spoken by about 200 people along Cape Vogel in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

Vocabulary

'pig'

'blood'

'woman'

'long yam'

'four'

'how many'

'smoke'

'who?'

'we (incl.)'

'they'

'leg'

'mosquito'

'one'Ross, M.D. Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. C-98. Pacific Linguistics, 1988

References

Further reading Landweer, M. Lynn. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Anuki Language, Cape Vogel, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea." 2001 Landweer, Martha Lynn. 2006. A Melanesian perspective on mechanisms of language maintenance and shift: case studies from Papua New Guinea. Ph.D., University of Essex. 2 vols.

External links Open-access materials on Doga are available through Paradisec, including the Arthur Capell collection (AC2) and the Tom Dutton collection (TD1)