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| Andai | |
|---|---|
| Upper Arafundi | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 440 (2017)[1] |
Madang – Upper Yuat
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | afd |
| Glottolog | anda1283 |
| ELP | Meakambut |
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
[edit]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 (4°57′11″S 143°35′13″E / 4.953147°S 143.586822°E), Awarem, Imboin (4°47′33″S 143°39′41″E / 4.792407°S 143.661468°E), Kaiyam (4°55′06″S 143°31′43″E / 4.918344°S 143.528512°E), Kupini (4°56′34″S 143°34′52″E / 4.942655°S 143.581077°E), and Namata mountain (4°51′38″S 143°35′54″E / 4.860561°S 143.598304°E) villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Andai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.