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Sursurunga is an Oceanic language of New Ireland.

Sursurunga
Region	New Ireland
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (St George linkage) Sursurunga
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sgz
Glottolog	surs1246

Number

Sursurunga is famous for having a five-way grammatical number distinction. The numbers beside singular, dual, and plural have been called trial and quadral (Hutchisson 1986); however, these numbers, which only occur on pronouns, indicate a minimum of three and four, not exactly three and four the way the dual indicates exactly two.[2] They are equivalent to "a few" and "several", and Corbett has called them (lesser) paucal and greater paucal. The trial cannot be used for dyadic kinship terms, whereas the quadral is used for two or three such pair relationships.

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На других языках

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[de] Sursurunga

Sursurunga gehört zu den ozeanischen Sprachen, welche eine Untergruppe der austronesischen Sprachfamilie bilden. Es wird von 3000 Menschen auf der Insel Neuirland (Teil von Papua-Neuguinea) gesprochen.

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- [en] Sursurunga language

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