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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.
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).
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]
There is a cluster of languages in West Papua between the upper Taritatu River and the PNG border, including Molof, Usku, and Tofamna listed above but also Namla, Murkim, Lepki, and Kembra, which do not appear to be related to each other or to other languages in the area. Namla, recently discovered, may prove to be related to Tofamna once more ...
Included in this new legislation was the provision to create new provinces, and in July 2022 new national legislation split South Papua, Central Papua, Highland Papua from Papua [12] through Law Number 14 of 2022, Law Number 15 of 2022, and Law Number 16 of 2022 respectively. [9]
The province of Highland Papua (Provinsi Papua Pegunungan) in Indonesia is divided into eight kabupaten which in turn are divided administratively into districts, known as distrik under the law of 2001 on "special autonomy for Papua province".
The Mek are a Papuan people living in Dirwemna and Puldama, Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia. [1] [2] They are closely related to Ketengban people in Pegunungan Bintang Regency. [2] A television series on The Discovery Channel titled Living with the Mek was aired in 2008. [3]