Left May Languages
Left May / Arai | ||
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Spoken in |
Papua New Guinea | |
speaker | approx. 2000 (native speaker) | |
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Official language in | nowhere |
Coordinates: 4 ° 15 ′ S , 141 ° 40 ′ E |
Left May or Arai is a language group that is native to northwest Papua New Guinea , on and in the hinterland of the west bank of the May River , a tributary of the Sepik ( Arai after the place on the river), in the east of the East Sepik Province and adjacent province of Sandaun .
The area covers about 60 km northeast-southwest extension.
The family's most spoken language is Nimo with 415 native speakers. The other languages are Iteri (Rocky Peak), Ama, Owiniga, and Nakwi and Bo , but they are also placed in a linguistically independent group. The languages are highly endangered languages that are only spoken in one or a few villages at a time.
No close relationship with any of the other native language families can be proven, a possible upper grouping is Arai-Kwomtari , with the Kwomtari group.
In the surrounding area, Sepik is spoken in the north and Sepik-Ramu in the east, Ok in the highlands in the southeast , and the small island of Amto-Musan in the northwest .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arai-Kwomtari, Arai (Left May). ethnologue .com
- ↑ Ama was examined in particular by Britten and Soren Årsjö (Uppsala Universitet, Institutions för lingvistik): PNG Bibliography Works by Sören Årsjö ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Works by Britten Årsjö ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . both Summer Institute of Linguistics (Ed.); various work online
- ↑ Left May , ethnologue .com
- ↑ Arai-Kwomtari. ethnologue .com
- ↑ Information according to map in dataset . Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project and Papua New Guinea, Map 5 . ethnologue .com