Nai language
Nai | |
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Biaka | |
Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 750 (2010)[1] |
Kwomtari
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Glottolog |
naii1241 [2] |
Nai or Biaka is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Amanab District, Sandaun Province, in three villages: Konabasi, Biaka, and Amini.
Nai is one of the Kwomtari languages. However, due to an alignment error in the published data, Nai (as Biaka) was mistakenly placed in a spurious "Baibai" family with the Fas language Baibai; this was then linked back to the Kwomtari family as "Kwomtari–Baibai". (See Kwomtari–Fas languages for details.)
References
- ↑ Nai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Baron, Wietze (1983). "Kwomtari survey" (PDF).
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