Arandai language

Arandai
Kemberano Weriagar
Native to	West Papua, Indonesia
Region	Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers	unknown (2,500 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea South Bird's Head South Bird's Head proper Arandai
Dialects	Weriagar Barau Kalitami Tomu Dombano
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: bzp – Wariagar (Kemberano–Barau) jbj – Yaban (Tomu–Arandai)
Glottolog	aran1237  (Arandai)[2] kemb1235  (Kemberano)[3]
Linguasphere	20-HD (20-HDA, 20-HDB)

Arandai (Tomu–Kemberano) is a dialect cluster of New Guinea.

The treatment at Ethnologue appears to be inconsistent. ISO codes are assigned to two languages, Arandai and Kemberano, also known as Arandai. They are said to have 85% lexical similarity, which would make them dialects of one language. However, the two dialects given for Arandai, also called Kemberano and Arandai (AKA Tomu and Dombano), are said to have only 71% lexical similarity, making them different languages. Dialects of Kemberano (Weriagar) are listed as Weriagar (Kemberano) and Barau.

Additional alternative names of Arandai/Kemberano (Dombano–Tomu) are given as Jaban / Yaban, Sebyar, Sumuri. Additional alternative name of Kemberano/Arandai (Barau–Weriagar) is given as Kalitami.

Linguasphere 2010 makes a more consistent distinction:

20-HD Tomu–Kemberano

20-HDA Tomu–Arandai; includes Yaban, Sebyar

20-HDA-a Tomu

20-HDA-b Arandai (Dombano)

20-HDB Kemberano–Barau

20-HDB-a Kemberano (Kalitami)

20-HDB-b Weriagar

20-HDB-c Barau

References

1. Wariagar (Kemberano–Barau) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Yaban (Tomu–Arandai) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Arandai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kemberano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.