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.
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]