Andai language

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Andai
Upper Arafundi
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
440 (2017)[1]
Madang – Upper Yuat
Language codes
ISO 639-3afd
Glottologanda1283
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Andai (Pundungum, Wangkai) is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea. Meakambut may be identical, but due to lack of data this cannot be determined with certainty.

Locations

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Kassell, et al. (2018) list Namata, Kupina, Kaiyam, Andambit, and Awarem as the villages where Nanubae is spoken.[2] In the Andai area, the Mongolo (or Meakambut, after one of their former villages) people, a group of about 50–60 people, live east of the Arafundi River; Kassell, et al. (2018) believe this may be a separate ethnolinguistic group.[2]

According to Ethnologue, it is spoken in Andambit (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), Awarem, Imboin (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), Kaiyam (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), Kupini (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), and Namata mountain (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Andai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Kassell, Alison, Bonnie MacKenzie and Margaret Potter. 2018. Three Arafundi Languages: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Andai, Nanubae, and Tapei. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2017-003.
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