Baluan-Pam language

Baluan-Pam
Baluan-Pam
Paluai
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Baluan Island and Pam Islands, Manus Province
Native speakers	2,000 (2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Admiralty Islands Eastern Admiralty Islands Southeastern islands Baluan-Pam; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	blq
Glottolog	balu1257
ELP	Paluai

Baluan-Pam is an Oceanic language of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken on Baluan Island and on nearby Pam Island. The number of speakers, according to the latest estimate based on the 2000 Census, is 2,000. Speakers on Baluan Island prefer to refer to their language with its native name Paluai.

The language is of the agglutinating type with comparatively little productive morphology. Basic constituent order is subject–verb–object (SVO).

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