Taulil is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
| Taulil | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2012)[1] |
East New Britain
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tuh |
| Glottolog | taul1251 |
| ELP | Taulil |
 Taulil is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
It is spoken in Kadaulung village of (4°27′09″S 152°07′06″E / 4.452603°S 152.118398°E) of Inland Baining Rural LLG, and in Taulil 1 (4°24′48″S 152°05′32″E / 4.413301°S 152.092147°E) and Taulil 2 (4°25′12″S 152°05′15″E / 4.419937°S 152.087372°E) villages of Vunadidir/Toma Rural LLG.[1][2]
Butam (now extinct) is related. Like the Butam, the Taulil people trace their ancestry to New Ireland.[3]
Phonology
editTaulil has the following consonants:[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Taulil at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ^ a b Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- Meng, Chenxi (2018). A grammar of Tulil (Ph.D. thesis). La Trobe University. hdl:1959.9/565684.