Ninigo and Anchorite island groups, Manus Province
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
Oceanic
Admiralty Islands
Western Admiralty Islands
Seimat
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ssg
Glottolog
seim1238
The Seimat language is one of three Western Admiralty Islands languages, the other two being Wuvulu-Aua and the extinct Kaniet. The language is spoken by approximately 1000 people on the Ninigo and the Anchorite Islands in western Manus Province of Papua New Guinea.[2] It has subject–verb–object (SVO) word order.[2]
^Seimat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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