Nakai language

Nakai
Region Papua
Native speakers
700 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nkj
Glottolog naka1265[2]

Nakai is an Ok language of West Papua. Two of the three dialects, which pronounce the ethnonym Nagi, may be a distinct language.

References

  1. Nakai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nakai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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