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Kâte is a Papuan language spoken by about 6,000 people in the Finschhafen District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Finisterre–Huon branch of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross 2005). It was adopted for teaching and mission work among speakers of Papuan languages by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea in the early 1900s and at one time had as many as 80,000 second-language speakers. ==Dialects== McElhanon (1974: 16) identifies five likely dialects at the time of earliest mission contact in 1886, each named according to how they pronounce a common word or phrase. * Wana ('where?'), the southernmost dialect * Wamorâ ('why?') * Mâgobineng ('we are saying it') or Bamotâ ('why?'), nearly extinct in 1974 * Parec, already extinct by 1974 * Wemo ('what?') or Wena, adopted as the mission lingua franca 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kâte language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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