Kyenele language

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Kyenele
Miyak
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Native speakers
1,300 (2003) [1]
Yuat
  • Kyenele
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kql
Glottolog kyen1243 [2]
Coordinates: 4°36′10″S143°50′40″E / 4.602663°S 143.844495°E / -4.602663; 143.844495 (Girin)

Kyenelea.k.a.Miyak is a Yuat language of Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea Constitutional monarchy in Oceania

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. Its capital, located along its southeastern coast, is Port Moresby. The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. It is the world's 3rd largest island country with 462,840 km2 (178,700 sq mi).

Versions of its name include Keñele, Keyele, Kenying, Bulang, Kenen Birang, Kyenying-Barang.

It is spoken in Giling (Girin) ( 4°36′10″S143°50′40″E / 4.602663°S 143.844495°E / -4.602663; 143.844495 (Girin) ), a village located on the banks of the Yuat River in Yuat Rural LLG, East Sepik Province. [3] [4]

Yuat River river in Papua New Guinea

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Yuat Rural LLG Local-level government in Papua New Guinea

Yuat Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It is named after the Yuat River. The Yuat languages are spoken in this LLG.

East Sepik Province Place in Papua New Guinea

East Sepik is a province in Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wewak. East Sepik has an estimated population of 433,481 people and is 43,426 km square in size.

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References

  1. ↑ Kyenele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kyenele". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  4. ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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