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Amele

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: aey

Population	5,300 (1987 SIL).
Region	Madang Province, Madang District, hills up from Astrolabe Bay, between Gum and Gogol rivers. 40 hamlets.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 7, reference number 346
Alternate names	Amale
Dialects	Huar, Jagahala, Haija. Related to Gumalu [gmu], Sihan [snr], Isebe [igo], Bau [bbd], Panim [pnr].
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Madang, Croisilles, Gum
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 75%–100%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Grammar. NT: 1997.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Andersen, T. David and John R. Roberts. 1991. "An exception to the hodiernal: Non-hodiernal distinction."

Roberts, John R. 1987. Amele.

Roberts, John R. 1988. "Amele switch-reference and the theory of grammar."

Roberts, John R. 1988. "Switch-reference in Papuan languages: a syntactic or extrasyntactic device?."

Roberts, John R. 1990. "Modality in Amele and other Papuan languages."

Roberts, John R. 1991. "A study of the dialects of Amele."

Roberts, John R. 1991. "Orthography reform in Amele: Part one."

Roberts, John R. 1991. "Reduplication in Amele."

Roberts, John R. 1992. "Orthography reform in Amele: Part two."

Roberts, John R. 1993. "Mirror-image reduplication in Amele."

Roberts, John R. 1995. Verb specifiers in Amele.

Roberts, John R. 1996. "A Government and Binding analysis of the verb in Amele."

Roberts, John R. 1997. "The syntax of discourse structure."

Roberts, John R. 1998. "GIVE in Amele."

Roberts, John R. 2001. "Impersonal constructions in Amele."

Roberts, John R., compiler. Available: 2007; Created: 1978-1988. Amele interlinear texts.  

Roberts, John Rodney. 1986. Amele grammar.