Kara is a member of the Western Oceanic branch of the Malayo-Polynesian language family. It has about 5,000 speakers in the Kavieng District in the north of New Ireland Province in the northeast of Papua New Guinea. In particular, it is spoken in the villages of Lemakot, Fangalava, Nonopai, Lamusmus, La'un, Lavolai, Luburua, Panachais, Parawai and Pangafua.
Kara is also known as Kara-Lemakot, Lemusmus or Lemakot. Dialects include East Kara and West Kara. It can be written with the Latin alphabet.
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Kuuskuus paralaak, kuuskuus paratung. A saxa mataa vesan - a mo - malaan sena baaluus, a vesane pana wai. E nane tei saxa wai. E lumui a valof a lana. A falet, falet e lana fevalof. E lulumui nane tafang tapine xe laa’ui. E a mo laak xe laa’ui e poxo fa'ulaa xe la lapia. E nane fulaa vesan fulane pana teiaana lana.
Story going up, story going down (traditional opening). A certain man made (uh) a thing (uh) like an airplane, he made it with wood. And he cut down a certain tree. And afterwards he hollowed out the inside. He did and did and the inside became hollow. And after that he tried throwing it up in the air.
Source: Kara Organised Phonology Data by Perry Schlie.
Information about Kara | Numbers
Information about Kara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_language_(Papua_New_Guinea)
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kara1486
http://www.language-archives.org/language/leu
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/leu
https://www.academia.edu/100599464/A_grammatical_description_of_Kara_Lemakot
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