Kaki Ae language
| Kaki Ae | |
|---|---|
| Tate | |
| Region | New Guinea |
| Ethnicity | spoken by 40% (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | 630 (2004)[2] |
Eleman
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tbd |
| Glottolog | kaki1249 |
| ELP | Kaki Ae |
Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea. It appears to be related to the Eleman languages.
The pronouns are:
sg pl 1 nao nu'u 2 ao ofe 3 era era-he
Kaki Ae has no distinction between /t/ and /k/. It has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans.[3]
References
- ^ Kaki Ae language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ Kaki Ae at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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