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Lungalunga (Lunga Lunga), frequently though ambiguously called Minigir, is spoken by a small number of the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. It is often referred to in the linguistics literature as the Tolai "dialect" with an /s/.

Lungalunga
Minigir
Vinitiri
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Ethnicity	spoken by 40% (2000?)[1]
Native speakers	600 (2000)[2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (St George linkage) Patpatar–Tolai Lungalunga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vmg
Glottolog	mini1251

Classification

Lungalunga belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. The most immediate subgroup is the Patpatar–Tolai group of languages which also includes Kuanua (also spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula) and Patpatar (spoken on New Ireland).

A "Tolai-Nakanai trade language" reported in the literature was apparently not a pidgin as assumed, but Minigir (Lungalunga) with perhaps some Meramera or Nakanai mixed in.[3]

Geographic distribution

Lungalunga is spoken on Ataliklikun Bay, in the villages of Lungalunga, Kabaira and Vunamarita, located on the Gazelle Peninsula in the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea.

Grammar

Independent pronouns

Lungalunga pronouns have four number distinctions (singular, dual, trial and plural) and three person distinctions (first, second and third) as well as an inclusive and exclusive distinction. There are no gender distinctions.

	Singular	Dual	Trial	Plural
1st exclusive	iau (I)	iamiru (he/she and I)	iamitalu (both of them, and I)	iamamami (all of them, and I)
1st inclusive	-	iadori (thou and I)	iadatalu (both of you, and I)	iada (all of you, and I)
2nd	iavau (thou)	iamuru (you two)	iamutalu (you three)	iamui (you guys)
3rd	ia (he/she)	idiru (they two)	iditalu (they three)	idi (they)

Syntax

The usual word order of Lungalunga is SVO.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Lungalunga language

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[fr] Minigir

Le minigir (nom vernaculaire vinitiri) est une des langues de Nouvelle-Irlande, parlée par environ 100 000 locuteurs dans la péninsule de Gazelle, en province de Nouvelle-Bretagne orientale. Elle fait partie des langues océaniennes. Le minigir est parlé par une partie des Tolai. Il est souvent considéré comme un des dialectes Tolai alors qu'il ne fait pas partie des langues patpatar-tolai. Le sous-groupe le plus proche est néanmoins celui du kuanua, également parlé dans la péninsule de Gazelle et le patpatar, parlé en Nouvelle-Irlande. Le minigir est parlé autour de la baie d'Atalikliklun, dans les villages de Lungalunga, Kabaira et Vunamarita.

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