| Language name: | TIGAK |
| UPSID number: | 2425 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, East Malayo-Polynesian |
| This language has | 17 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.500847789 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k b g B s m n N lF r i E 4 O u |
| Comment: | Tigak is spoken in New Ireland province, northen, also Western Djaul Island in Papua New Guinea. Vowel sequences are interpreted as such and not as diphthongs or as vowel + glide combinations. /k/ and /g/ are described as "backed"; it is not clear if these should be considered uvular. |
| Source(s): | Beaumont, C.H. 1979. The Tigak language of New Ireland. (Pacific Linguistics Series B, 58). Australian National University, Canberra. |