Amto

AMT

threatened

Dialects: Amto, Siawi.

Genealogy:

Amto-Musan

Demographics: 300 (2006 NTM).

Language Use: All ages. Also use Siawi [mmp], Tok Pisin [tpi]. Used as L2 by Siawi [mmp].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 30% in Tok Pisin [tpi].

Typology: SOV; postpositions, genitives before noun heads; adjectives after noun heads; relatives without noun heads; question word final; maximum prefixes: 1, maximum suffixes: 3, causatives, comparatives; CV, CVV, CVVV, CCV, CCCV, nontonal.

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea

Other Comments: Traditional religion, Christian.