Dialects: Ngowiye, Yongolei.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 1,400 (1991 SIL). 700 monolinguals.
Language Use: Also use Tok Pisin [tpi].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 50%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Literacy rate in L1 dropped due to adult reader deaths and the shift of children to Tok Pisin [tpi]. Literacy rate in L2 remains high due to the number of children attending school. NT: 1985.
Typology: SOV.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea