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Tolai
Kuanua
Tinata Tuna
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionGazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
EthnicityTolai
Native speakers
(61,000 cited 1991)[1]
20,000 L2 speakers
Language family
Austronesian
  • Malayo-Polynesian
    • Oceanic
      • Western
        • Meso-Melanesian
          • (St George linkage)
            • Patpatar–Tolai
              • Tolai
Writing system
Latin script (Tolai alphabet)
Tolai Braille
Language codes
ISO 639-3ksd
Glottologkuan1248

The Tolai language, or Kuanua, is spoken by the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province.

  1. ^ Tolai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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