Wolani (Wodani) 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 ...
spoken by about 5,000 people in the
Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of
Papua. It is related to the
Moni
Moni or Mone ( Kamkata-vari: ''Mone''/''Mune''), also known as Mandi (from Prasun) was, after Imra, the second-most important god in the pre-Islamic pantheon of the Nuristani people. With his breath, Imra created Moni and Gish. Moni was believe ...
,
Ekari,
Auye, and
Dao
Dao, Dão or DAO may refer to:
* Tao (Chinese: "The Way" 道), a philosophical concept
* Dao (Chinese sword) (刀), a type of Chinese sword
* Dao (Naga sword), a weapon and a tool of Naga people
People and language
* Yao people, a minority ethni ...
languages and may
be related to the
Dani languages. Documentation is quite limited.
Further reading
*de Bruijn, J. V. 1941. ''Verslag van een Tocht naar Beura, het Stroomgebied van de Beurong en Lelop, het Stroomgebiet van de Ielorong in Centraal Nieuw Guinea door den Controleur der Wisselmeren van 9 Juni 1941 tot 7 Augustus 1941''
eport of a Survey Trip to Beura, the Beurong and Lelop Watersheds, the Ielorong Watershed in Central New Guinea by the Wissel Lakes Administrator the 9th of June. 1941 to the 7th of August 1941 Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Ministerie van Koloniën: Kantoor Bevolkingszaken Nieuw-Guinea te Hollandia: Rapportenarchief, 1950–1962, nummer toegang 2.10.25, inventarisnummer 256.
*Larson, Gordon F. 1977. Reclassification of some Irian Jaya Highlands language families: A lexicostatistical cross-family subclassification with historical implications. ''Irian'' 6(2): 3–40.
*Voorhoeve, Clemens L. 1975. ''Languages of Irian Jaya, Checklist: Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists''. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
References
* Doble, Marion. 1962. Essays on Kapauku grammar. ''Nieuw Guinea Studiën'' 6:152-5, 211-8, 279-98.
*
Drabbe, Peter. 1952. ''Spraakkunst van het Ekagi, Wisselmeren, Nederlands Nieuw Guinea''. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.
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- ...
has an open access collection from
Arthur Cappell (AC2) tha
includes Wolani materials
Paniai Lakes languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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