Nai or Biaka is a language of

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Nai is one of the

Kwomtari languages The Senu River languages are a small language family spoken in the Senu River watershed of Papua New Guinea. They consist at least of the Kwomtari languages, Kwomtari and Nai, with several additional languages more distantly related to them. ...

. However, due to an alignment error in the published data, Nai (as ''Biaka'') was mistakenly placed in a spurious "Baibai" family with the

Fas language Fas ( Momu, Bembi) is the eponymous language of the small Fas language family of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. Fas was once mistakenly placed in the Kwomtari family, confusing their classification. Its only demonstrated relative is actua ...

Baibai; this was then linked back to the Kwomtari family as "Kwomtari–Baibai". (See

Kwomtari–Fas languages The Kwomtari–Fas languages, often referred to ambiguously as Kwomtari, are an apparently spurious language family proposal of six languages spoken by some 4,000 people in the north of Papua New Guinea, near the border with Indonesia. The term "K ...

for details.)

Locations

Ethnologue lists Biaka-speaking villages in

Green River Rural LLG Green River Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. It is located along the border with Keerom Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia. Rivers Rivers that flow through the LLG include the Samaia River. La ...

, (formerly within

Amanab District Amanab is a Papuan language spoken by 4,400 people in Amanab District (), Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua Ne ...

Sandaun Province Sandaun Province (formerly West Sepik Province) is the northwesternmost mainland province of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 35,920 km2 (13868 m2) and has a population of 248,411 (2011 census). The capital is Vanimo. In July 1998 the a ...

, in three villages: Konabasi (), Biaka (), and Amini (). Baron (2007) lists Biaka-speaking villages as Konabasi, Biaka, and Amini.

References

* {{Languages of Papua New Guinea Languages of Sandaun Province Kwomtari–Nai languages