Kaki Ae language

Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea. It was previously known by the foreign designation Raeta Tati.

Kaki Ae
Tate
RegionNew Guinea
Ethnicity660 ethnic population (2015)[1]
Native speakers
630 (2015)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3tbd
Glottologkaki1249
ELPKaki Ae
Kaki Ae is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Classification

Kaki Ae has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans.[2] Søren Wichmann (2013)[3] tentatively considers it to be a separate, independent group. Pawley and Hammarström (2018) treat Kaki Ae as a language isolate due to low cognacy rates with Eleman, and consider the few similarities shared with Eleman to be due to borrowed loanwords.[4]

Distribution

Kaki Ae is spoken in Auri, Kupiano, Kupla (7.990545°S 145.790882°E / -7.990545; 145.790882 (Kupola Settlement)), Lou (8.015988°S 145.813268°E / -8.015988; 145.813268 (Lou)), Ovorio (7.987255°S 145.809446°E / -7.987255; 145.809446 (Ovorio)), and Uriri (7.978345°S 145.794638°E / -7.978345; 145.794638 (Uriri)) villages in Central Kerema Rural LLG, Gulf Province.[1][5]

Pronouns

The Kaki Ae pronouns are:

sgpl
1 naonu'u
2 aoofe
3 eraera-he

Phonology

Kaki Ae has no distinction between /t/ and /k/. (The forms kaki and tate of the name both derive from the rather pejorative Toaripi name for the people, Tati.)

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary words are from Brown (1973),[6] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[7]

glossKaki Ae
headaro
hairuʔumo
earoʔi
eyeere
nosenoʔi
toothhuʔu
tongueanara
legfera
lousesaruta
dogevera
birdmini
eggmini umu
bloodivare
boneuki
breastame
treeoproro
manaru
womanaʔu
sunlare
moonfuiya
waterhaime
fireaiyeʔi
stoneere
nameiru
eatmuake
oneokiao
twouʔungka

Further reading
  • Clifton, John M. 1995. A grammar sketch of the Kaki Ae language. In: Albert J. Bickfield (ed.), Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 33–80. Grand Forks, North Dakota: SIL.
  • Wurm, S.A. editor. Some Endangered Languages of Papua New Guinea: Kaki Ae, Musom, and Aribwatsa. D-89, vi + 183 pages. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1997.

References
  1. Kaki Ae at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Kaki Ae". Glottolog 4.3.
  3. Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
  4. Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  6. Brown, H.A. (Ed.) (2015). "Chapter 8: The Eleman Language Family". doi:10.15144/PL-C26.279. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
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