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 family	Torricelli Maimai Nabi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mty
Glottolog	nabi1239
ELP	Nambi

Nabi (Nambi), a.k.a. 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) (subscription required)

• Ross, Malcolm (2005). "Pronouns as a preliminary diagnostic for grouping Papuan languages." In: Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and Jack Golson, eds, Papuan pasts: cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples, 15–66. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.