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Aisi, or Musak, is a
Papuan language 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. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
of
Madang Province Madang is a Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capi ...
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Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. Aisi is spoken in Musak (), Kikerai (), Banam (), Sepu (), and Garaligut () villages in Usino Rural LLG.Daniels, Don. 2016. Magɨ: An undocumented language of Papua New Guinea. ''
Oceanic Linguistics ''Oceanic Linguistics'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the indigenous Australian languages, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, ...
'' 55: 199-224.
The largest Aisi-speaking villages are Sepu, Banam, and Musak, located just to the east of the
Ramu River The Ramu River is a major river in northern Papua New Guinea. The headwaters of the river are formed in the Kratke Range from where it then travels about northwest to the Bismarck Sea. Along the Ramu's course, it receives numerous tributaries ...
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See also

* Swadesh list of Aisi and Magɨ


References

Sogeram languages Languages of Madang Province {{Madang-lang-stub