Nai language

Nai
Biaka
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
750 (2010)[1]
Kwomtari
  • Kwomtari–Nai

    • Nai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bio
Glottolog naii1241[2]

Nai or Biaka is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Amanab District, Sandaun Province, in three villages: Konabasi, Biaka, and Amini.

Nai is one of the Kwomtari languages. However, due to an alignment error in the published data, Nai (as Biaka) was mistakenly placed in a spurious "Baibai" family with the Fas language Baibai; this was then linked back to the Kwomtari family as "Kwomtari–Baibai". (See Kwomtari–Fas languages for details.)

References

  1. Nai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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