Ransdell-Green Margaret Neal. Kala Phonology in a Typological and Regional Context

University of Hawaii, 2023. — 244 p.Kala is a Western Oceanic language of the North Huon Gulf subfamily (Ross 1988), spoken along the Huon Gulf by around 3000 speakers in four dialects. Speakers are divided between six villages, from north to south along a stretch of coast about 50km long. From northernmost to southernmost, these villages are Manindala (also called Kela), Lambu (Logui), Apoze (Laukano), Kamiali (Lababia), Alẽso (Buso), and Kui. While Kamiali, Alẽso, and Kui all share a dialect, with minor differences between them, the northern three villages (Manindala, Lambu, Apoze) all have individual dialects. Kala’s closest relative languages in the North Huon Gulf subfamily are Jabêm (Bradshaw and Czobor 2005; Dempwolff 1939) and Bukawa (Eckermann 2007). Between the Kala villages are villages that use different languages, such as Iwal, another Western Oceanic language. Below is a map showing the locations of the Kala villages relative to each other, along the Huon Gulf of Morobe, Province.