Andai language explained

Andai
Also Known As:Upper Arafundi
Nativename:Meakambut
States:Papua New Guinea
Region:East Sepik Province
Speakers:440
Date:2017
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Papuan
Fam1:Madang – Upper Yuat
Fam2:Upper Yuat
Fam3:Arafundi
Iso3:afd
Glotto:anda1283
Glottoname:Andai
Glotto2:meak1234
Glottoname2:Meakambut

Andai (Meakambut, Pundungum, Wangkai) is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea.

Locations

Kassell, et al. (2018) list Namata, Kupina, Kaiyam, Andambit, and Awarem as the villages where Nanubae is spoken.[1] 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.[1]

According to Ethnologue, it is spoken in Andambit (-4.9531°N 143.5868°W), Awarem, Imboin (-4.7924°N 143.6615°W), Kaiyam (-4.9183°N 143.5285°W), Kupini (-4.9427°N 143.5811°W), and Namata mountain (-4.8606°N 143.5983°W) villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[2]

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. Web site: Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup . United Nations in Papua New Guinea . Humanitarian Data Exchange . 1.31.9 . 2018.