Nai language
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| Nai | |
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| Biaka | |
| Spoken in | Papua New Guinea |
| Native speakers | 600 (2003)[1] |
| Language family |
Kwomtari
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| ISO 639-3 | bio |
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.)
[edit] Reference
- ^ Nai at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Baron, Wietze (1983). Kwomtari survey. http://www.kwomtari.net/kwomtari_survey.pdf.
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