Pagi language
| Pagi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2003)[1] |
Border
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pgi |
| Glottolog | pagi1244 |
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Pagi, or Bembi, is a Papuan language spoken by 2,000 people in five villages in Sandaun Province and in Vanimo District of Papua New Guinea, near the border with Indonesian Papua.
Overview
[edit | edit source]The name "Bewani" attributes to the mountains that form a boundary between Vanimo and Amanab Districts.
The Imbinis dialect of Pagi is spoken in Imbinis (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) and Imbio (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) villages.[3]
Neighboring languages include Ainbai and Kilmeri,[3] also Border languages belonging to the Bewani branch.[4]
Usage
[edit | edit source]Pagi is spoken near Bewani Station (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), Idoli (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.), and Amoi (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) villages in Bewani-Wutung Onei Rural LLG. Tok Pisin is generally used by the government officials and in families where husband and wife belong to communities speaking different indigenous languages. The region is also influenced by English, which is the main language used in schools of the region, accompanied occasionally by Tok Pisin.[3][5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pagi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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- ^ a b c Brown, Robert. 1981. A sociolinguistic survey of Pagi and Kilmeri. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages 29. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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