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Ketengban, also known as Kupel, is a Papuan language spoken in Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia, near the Papua New Guinea border.. Dialects are Okbab (Okbap), Bime, Onya (Eastern Una; cf. Una), Omban (Kamume), Sirkai.bahasa ketengban Selamat :telebe Datang :jaremateb Nenai:bapa Nanin:mama/ibu Neka :kawan saudara Ame:laki,laki Aner:perempua Kabula:belum Kunum :suda Teka:ya ...
Highland Papua (Indonesian: Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. [6] It covers an area of 51,213.33 km 2 (19,773.58 sq mi) and had a population of 1,448,360 according to the official estimates as at mid 2023.
Apart from Mansim (Borai), formerly listed as a dialect, Hatam is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to the West Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns, Ethnologue and Glottolog list it as a language isolate [1] or small independent family.
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. [1] It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a genetic relationship .
Kimki (Aipki [2]) or Sukubatom (Sukubatong) is a South Pauwasi language of Batom District, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia. Foley classifies Kimki as a language isolate, although he notes some similarities with Murkim. [2] Usher demonstrates a connection to the other South Pauwasi languages.
Papuan Malay or Irian Malay is a Malay-based creole language spoken in the Indonesian part of New Guinea.It emerged as a contact language among tribes in Indonesian New Guinea (now Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua, South Papua, West Papua, and Southwest Papua) for trading and daily communication.
Indonesia is home to over 700 living languages, creoles, and dialects spoken across its extensive archipelago. [1] [2] This significant linguistic variety constitutes approximately 10% of the world’s total languages, [3] positioning Indonesia as the second most linguistically diverse nation globally, following Papua New Guinea. [4]
The Mek languages are a well established family of Papuan languages spoken by the Mek people and Yali people.They form a branch of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) in the classifications of Stephen Wurm (1975) and of Malcolm Ross (2005).