Kambaira | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Eastern Highlands Province |
Native speakers | 16,000 (2003) [1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kyy |
Glottolog | kamb1303 |
ELP | Kambaira |
Kambaira is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea.
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.
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.