Umanakaina, or Gwedena, is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
of
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea).
It is a simplified version of ...
. It is a rather divergent member of the
Dagan family.
Bibliography
;Word lists
*Anonymous. 1914. Vocabularies of languages spoken by the people of the Gwoiru mountains, and the Kanamara people on the main range and from Paiwa, Goodenough Bay, N. E. D. ''Papua Annual Report'' 1913–1914: 184–184.
*Ray, Sidney H. 1938. The languages of the Eastern and South-Eastern Division of Papua. ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland'' 68: 153–208. (Also includes word lists of
Dima and other languages)
References
External links
*
Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...
has a collection of materials from Tom Dutton
TD1 that include Umanakaina language materials.
Languages of Milne Bay Province
Dagan languages
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