Baluan-Pam language
| Baluan-Pam | |
|---|---|
| Paluai | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Baluan Island and Pam Islands, Manus Province |
Native speakers | (2,000 cited 2000) |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | blq |
| Glottolog | balu1257 |
| ELP | Paluai |
Baluan-Pam is an Oceanic language of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken on Baluan Island and on nearby Pam Island. The number of speakers, according to the latest estimate based on the 2000 Census, is 2,000. Speakers on Baluan Island prefer to refer to their language with its native name Paluai.
The language is of the agglutinating type with comparatively little productive morphology. Basic constituent order is subject–verb–object (SVO).