Western Dani language
| Western Dani | |
|---|---|
| Laani | |
| Region | Highlands of Papua Province, Indonesia |
| Ethnicity | Lani |
Native speakers | 180,000 (1993)[1] |
|
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dnw |
| Glottolog |
west2594[2] |
Western Dani, or Laani, is the most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea. It is spoken by the Lani people in the province of Papua. The Swart Valley tribes are called Oeringoep and Timorini in literature from the 1920s, but those names are no longer used.
References
- ↑ Western Dani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Western Dani". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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