Namia language

Namia
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province, East Sepik Province
Native speakers
6,000 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nnm
Glottolog nami1256[2]

Namia (Namie, Nemia) is a Sepik language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua-New Guinea. It goes by various names, such as Edawapi, Lujere, Yellow River. Language use is "vigorous" (Ethnologue).

References

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