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Ulau-Suain language

Austronesian language in Papua New Guinea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ7878769 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ulau-Suain is an Austronesian language of coastal Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Ulau 1 (3.302724°S 142.794557°E / -3.302724; 142.794557 (Ulayut)), Ulau 2 (3.313306°S 142.821106°E / -3.313306; 142.821106 (Marubien)), and Suain (3.336895°S 142.919927°E / -3.336895; 142.919927 (Suain 1)) wards of East Aitape Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.

External links

Paradisec has two collections of Arthur Cappell's materials (AC1, AC2) and one collection from Malcolm Ross (MR1) that include Ulau-Suain language materials.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ulau-Suain language” as austronesian language in Papua New Guinea. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 73-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ulau-Suain, language and Austronesian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as austronesian language in Papua New Guinea. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7878769. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ulau-Suain language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.