Nanubae language

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Nanubae
Lower Arafundi
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
1,300 (2005)[1]
Madang – Upper Yuat
Language codes
ISO 639-3afk
Glottolognanu1240
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Nanubae (Kapagmai, Aunda) is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea. It is close to Tapei; the name Alfendio was once used for both.

Locations[]

Kassell, et al. (2018) list Imanmeri, Wambrumas, and Yamandim as the villages where Nanubae is spoken. Additionally, there are some speakers in Imboin, which also has Tapei speakers.[2]

According to Ethnologue (22nd edition), it is spoken in Imanmeri (

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4°38′47″S 143°36′15″E / 4.646309°S 143.604125°E / -4.646309; 143.604125 (Imanmeri)), Wambrumas (
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4°43′35″S 143°33′51″E / 4.726468°S 143.564188°E / -4.726468; 143.564188 (Wambrumas)), and Yamandim (
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4°44′03″S 143°36′43″E / 4.73418°S 143.611984°E / -4.73418; 143.611984 (Yamandim)) villages of Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ Nanubae at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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