Mauwake | Ethnologue

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639: mhl
Alternate Names: Mawake, Ulingan
Autonym: Mauwake
Population: 2,390 (2003 SIL). Ethnic population: 4,000 (2000 census).
Location:: Madang province: Bogia district.
Language Status: 6b (Threatened).
Classification: Trans-New Guinea, Madang, Croisilles, Pihom, Kumilan
Typology: SOV; Nominative-Accusative; Agglutinative morphology; Verbal affixation marks tense, aspect, mood, sequentiality vs. simultaneity of actions, subject, beneficiary, and distributive; Tenses: 3 (Past, Present, Future), Aspects: 2 (Perfective, Imperfective); Consonants: 14, Vowels: 5 (Berghäll 2010).
Language Use: Most children learn Tok Pisin [tpi] as their first language (Berghäll 2010). Some young people, all adults. All also use Tok Pisin [tpi] (Berghäll 2010). Used as L2 by Musar [mmi].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 50%–75%. Grammar. NT: 1998.
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Mauwake
Writing: Latin script [Latn].
Other Comments: Christian, traditional religion.

Location: Madang province: Bogia district.