Maia language

Not to be confused with Maya language.
Maia
Pila
Saki
Region Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
4,400 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sks
Glottolog maia1254[2]

Maia (Maya) is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Other names for the language are Banar, Pila, Saki, Suaro, Turutap, and Yakiba.

References

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


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