Left May Languages

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Left May / Arai

Spoken in

Papua New Guinea
speaker approx. 2000 (native speaker)
Linguistic
classification
  • Left May
    • Ama [amm]
    • Iteri [itr]
    • Nimo [niw]
    • Owiniga [owi]
    • Bo [bpw]
    • Nakwi [nax]
Official status
Official language in nowhere
Coordinates: 4 ° 15 ′  S , 141 ° 40 ′  E
Relief Map: Papua New Guinea
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Papua New Guinea

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

  1. ↑ Arai-Kwomtari, Arai (Left May). ethnologue .com
  2. ↑ 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ftp.sil.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ftp.sil.org
  3. ↑ Left May , ethnologue .com
  4. ↑ Arai-Kwomtari. ethnologue .com
  5. ↑ Information according to map in dataset . Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project and Papua New Guinea, Map 5 . ethnologue .com