Ngatik Men’s Creole

NGM

threatened

Alternate Names: Ngatikese, Ngatikese Men’s Language

Dialects: A creolized language from Sapuahfik Pohnapeian , dialect and English , whose genesis is the direct result of a massacre in 1837 of adult males on Ngatik by British traders.

Genealogy:

Creole
English based
Pacific

Demographics: 700. 500 on atoll (1983 L. Poyer), 200 on Ponape. 0 monolinguals.

Language Use: Women and children understand it. All are bilingual in the Sapwahfik dialect of Pohnpeian [pon] (Wurm 2007).

Nation of Origin: Micronesia