Mala language

{{Short description|Papuan language of Papua New Guinea}}

{{distinguish|Pai language (disambiguation){{!}}Pai language|Mala language (Nigeria)}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Mala

|nativename=Pay

|states=Papua New Guinea

|region=Madang Province

|speakers={{sigfig|1390|2}}

|date=2003

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Papuan

|fam1=Trans–New Guinea?

|fam2=Madang

|fam3=Croisilles

|fam4=Northwest Adelbert Range

|fam5=Kaukombar

|iso3=ped

|glotto=mala1494

|glottorefname=Mala (Papua New Guinea)

}}

Mala, or Pay, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.{{cite thesis |type=PhD dissertation |last=Pick |first=Andrew |date=2020 |title=A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon |publisher=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |url=http://ling.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/PickDissertation.pdf}}