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Mekwei (Menggwei), or Mooi, [2] is a Papuan language of Jayapura Regency, Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in Kendate, Maribu, Sabron Dosay, and Waibrong villages. It is spoken in Kendate, Maribu, Sabron Dosay, and Waibrong villages.
Multiple terms have been proposed to describe the native inhabitants of Eastern Indonesia.“Papuans” (Indonesian: Orang Papua) is the preferred term (especially in Indonesian and English) for inhabitants of New Guinea, since it is based on actual native nomenclature used by as recorded in several ancient native evidences.
mod house ofokou many mod ofokou house many mod house efaga CLF orgomu three mod efaga orgomu house CLF three Kinship Kinship terms, as inalienable nouns, share the same possessor prefixes as body parts and verb stems, however, they differ in the singular possessive prefixes. Instead of the ' (C)i- ' prefix found on first and second singular prefixes, kinship terms have ' ed-.' (1st singular ...
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 ...
Tok Pisin is an English-based creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea. It is an official language of Papua New Guinea and the most widely used language in the country. In parts of Western, Gulf, Central, Oro and Milne Bay provinces, however, the use of Tok Pisin has a shorter history, and is less universal especially among older people.
The West Papuan languages are a proposed language family of about two dozen non-Austronesian languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula (Vogelkop or Doberai Peninsula) of far western New Guinea, the island of Halmahera and its vicinity, spoken by about 220,000 people in all.
A view of Moanemani, Papua. Ekari (also Ekagi, Kapauku, Mee) is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by about 100,000 people in the Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of Central Papua, including the villages of Enarotali, Mapia and Moanemani. This makes it the second-most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea after ...
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).