Jump to content

Mwakai language

Coordinates: 4°15′44″S 143°55′03″E / 4.262293°S 143.917638°E / -4.262293; 143.917638 (Mongol)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Kwamikagami (talk | contribs) at 01:32, 29 December 2019 (top). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Mongol
Mwakai
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
340 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mgt
Glottologmong1344
ELPMongol-Kaimba
Coordinates: 4°15′44″S 143°55′03″E / 4.262293°S 143.917638°E / -4.262293; 143.917638 (Mongol)

Mongol, also known as Mwakai, is a Keram language of Papua New Guinea. Despite the name, it is not related to Mongolian, which is spoken in Central Asia.

It is spoken in Mongol village (4°15′44″S 143°55′03″E / 4.262293°S 143.917638°E / -4.262293; 143.917638 (Mongol)), Keram Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Mongol at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.