Andai language

Andai (Meakambut, Pundungum, Wangkai) is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea.

Andai
Upper Arafundi
Meakambut
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
440 (2017)[1]
Madang – Upper Yuat
Language codes
ISO 639-3afd
Glottologanda1283  Andai
meak1234  Meakambut
ELPMeakambut

Locations

Kassell, et al. (2018) list Namata, Kupina, Kaiyam, Andambit, and Awarem as the villages where Nanubae is spoken.[2] In the Andai area, the Mongolo (or Meakambut, after one of their former villages) people, a group of about 50–60 people, live east of the Arafundi River; Kassell, et al. (2018) believe this may be a separate ethnolinguistic group.[2]

According to Ethnologue, it is spoken in Andambit (4.953147°S 143.586822°E / -4.953147; 143.586822 (Andimbit)), Awarem, Imboin (4.792407°S 143.661468°E / -4.792407; 143.661468 (Imboin)), Kaiyam (4.918344°S 143.528512°E / -4.918344; 143.528512 (Kaiyam)), Kupini (4.942655°S 143.581077°E / -4.942655; 143.581077 (Kupin)), and Namata mountain (4.860561°S 143.598304°E / -4.860561; 143.598304 (Namata)) villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][3]

References
  1. Andai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. Kassell, Alison, Bonnie MacKenzie and Margaret Potter. 2018. Three Arafundi Languages: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Andai, Nanubae, and Tapei. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2017-003.
  3. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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