Goliath language

Una
Goliath
Region	West Papua
Native speakers	5,600 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Mek Eastern Una
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`mtg`
Glottolog	`unaa1239`^[2]

Una, better known as Goliath, is a Papuan language of West Papua.

Dialects are (Western) Una, Bomela, Tanime, Eastern Sela, Kinome. Eastern Una is closer to Ketengban.

References

John Louwerse, 1988, The morphosyntax of Una in relation to discourse structure

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

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