Kambaira language

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Kambaira
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Eastern Highlands Province
Native speakers
16,000 (2003) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kyy
Glottolog kamb1303
ELP Kambaira

Kambaira is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea.

Related Research Articles

East New Guinea Highlands is a 1960 proposal by Stephen Wurm for a family of Papuan languages spoken in Papua New Guinea that formed part of his 1975 expansion of Trans–New Guinea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kainantu–Goroka languages</span> Language family

The Kainantu–Goroka languages are a family of Papuan languages established by Arthur Capell in 1948 under the name East Highlands. They formed the core of Stephen Wurm's 1960 East New Guinea Highlands family, and are one of the larger branches of Trans–New Guinea in the 2005 classification of Malcolm Ross.

References

  1. Kambaira at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg