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2012
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Papua New Guinea
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Kanjimei village on the the Konmei River, a tributary of the Karawari River, in East Sepik Province
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Kanjimei village on the the Konmei River, a tributary of the Karawari River, in East Sepik Province
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"Nowadays, all Awiakay adults are bilingual in Tok Pisin and Awiakay. Multilingualism in other local languages is less common, but it occurs in the few families where one spouse is from the neighbouring Asangamut village. Among adult Awiakay, the use of Tok Pisin is confined mainly to situations where it functions as a language of authority. Code-switching between Tok Pisin and Awiakay occurs in public speeches, in quarrels an in other situations where a speaker (of any gender or age) wants to take an authoritative position in the communicative act. All children are fluent in Awiakay, but acquire Tok Pisin at a very early stage. They are addressed primarily in Awiakay, while Tok Pisin is used for scolding."
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- "Language Variation and Social Identity in Kanjimei, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea" HRELP AbstractHoenigman, Darja. 2011. ""Language Variation and Social Identity in Kanjimei, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=287.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=287
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