Doga language explained

Doga
States:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel
Speakers:	200
Date:	2000
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Oceanic
Fam4:	Western Oceanic
Fam5:	Papuan Tip
Fam6:	Are–Taupota
Fam7:	Are
Map2:	Lang Status 60-DE.svg
Iso3:	dgg
Glotto:	doga1238
Glottorefname:	Doga

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

poro 'pig'

dara-daragi- 'blood'

babine 'woman'

ubi 'long yam'

bata 'four'

biamo 'how many'

asu 'smoke'

iai 'who?'

-ta 'we (incl.)'

-si 'they'

ae- 'leg'

yamogiri 'mosquito'

tamo-na 'one'^[1]

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)

Notes and References

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