Kâte language

Kâte
Kâte
Pronunciation	[kɔtɛ]
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
Native speakers	20,000 (2011)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Finisterre–Huon Huon Eastern Huon Kâte; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kmg
Glottolog	kate1253

Kâte is a Papuan language spoken by about 6,000 people in the Finschhafen District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Finisterre–Huon branch of the Trans–New Guinea language family (McElhanon 1975, Ross 2005). It was adopted for teaching and mission work among speakers of Papuan languages by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea in the early 1900s and at one time had as many as 80,000 second-language speakers.

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