Kaki Ae language
Kaki Ae | |
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Tate | |
Region | New Guinea |
Ethnicity | spoken by 40% (no date)[1] |
Native speakers | 630 (2004)[2] |
Unclassified; proposed links to Eleman | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
tbd |
Glottolog |
kaki1249 [3] |
Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea.
The pronouns are:
sg pl 1 nao nu'u 2 ao ofe 3 era era-he
Kaki Ae has no distinction between /t/ and /k/. It has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans.[3]
References
- ↑ Kaki Ae language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Kaki Ae at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kaki Ae". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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