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. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nakai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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