Kara language (Papua New Guinea)

Kara
Region	New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	5,000 (1998)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Meso-Melanesian (New Ireland) Tungag–Nalik Kara
Dialects	Laxudumau?
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`kara1486`

Kara (also Lemusmus or Lemakot) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 5,000 people in 1998 in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Laxudumau, spoken in the village of Lakudumau, may be a transitional dialect to Nalik or a separate language.