Hagahai language

Hagahai
Pinai
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region EngaMadang border
Native speakers
600 (1997)[1]
Piawi
  • Hagahai
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pnn
Glottolog pina1252[2]

Hagahai, also known as Pinai, is one of two languages of the Piawi family of New Guinea.

Speakers in Enga Province use the name Pinai for all Pinai-Hagahai speakers. Those in Madang use Hagahai, at least for themselves. Exonyms include Wapi and Miamia in Enga and Aramo in Haruai.

Dialects are divergent, but speakers have a common identity.

References

  1. Hagahai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pinai-Hagahai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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