Kalamang has no written tradition, and is not used as an administrative These instances for conversations in smaller groups or for the performance of Gatherings or speeches at a wedding, but Kalamang is by no means avoided at Naturally, these situations include village Papuan Malay is used in those instances where a non-Kalamang Papua, the latter a standardised version of Malay that is the national language Indonesia (the former is a cover term for the regional variants of Malay used in These people typically know a few words and phrases, butĪll Kalamang speakers are bilingual in Papuan Malay, and some also in Bahasa These are, apart from the people bornĪfter 1990, the wives and husbands of Kalamang speakers who come from other I estimate that around half the population of bothĪntalisa and Mas do not speak Kalamang. Not all of whom can be considered fluent speakers. In 2019, a speaker count revealed that Kalamang has less than 190 speakers left, Older literature, Kalamang is known as Karas. TheĪustronesian language Uruangnirin is spoken on the two smaller Karas islands. Villages on the island: Antalisa ( Tamisen in Kalamang) and Mas ( Sewa). Kalamang is spoken on the biggest of the islands, in both of the The island belongs to a group of three referred to as the Karas
Indonesia, in West Papua province, on an island just off the coast of Bomberai
Is a Papuan family-level isolate, more distantly related to Iha (ihp, ihaa1241) and Mbaham (bdw, baha1258).
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