Doga language

Doga
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel
Native speakers	200 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Are–Taupota Are Doga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dgg
Glottolog	doga1238
ELP	Doga
Doga is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

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'^[2]

References

1. Doga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Ross, M.D. Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia. C-98. Pacific Linguistics, 1988

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)