Ngatik Men’s Creole

A language of Micronesia

ISO 639: ngm
Alternate Names: Ngatikese, Ngatikese Men’s Language
Population: 700. 500 on atoll (1983 L. Poyer), 200 on Ponape. No monolinguals.
Location:: Pohnpei state: Ngatik (Sapwuahfik) atoll, southwest of Pohnpei island.
Language Status: 6b* (Threatened).
Classification: Creole, English based, Pacific
Dialects: A creolized language from Sapuahfik Pohnapeian [pon] dialect and English [eng] whose genesis is the direct result of a massacre in 1837 of adult males on Ngatik by British traders.
Language Use: Women and children understand it. All also use Pohnpeian [pon], the Sapwahfik dialect (Wurm 2007).

Location: Pohnpei state: Ngatik (Sapwuahfik) atoll, southwest of Pohnpei island.