Nabi language

Not to be confused with Nabi language (Austronesian).
Nabi
Metan
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province
Native speakers
620 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mty
Glottolog nabi1239[2]

Nabi (Nambi), AKA Metan, is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. It was assigned to the Maimai branch in Ross (2005).

The language is spoken in three villages; according to Ethnologue, in two they prefer the name Nabi, and in the third Metan.

References

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