Nigilu language

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Nigilu
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Sepik
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog nigi1241 [1]

Nigilu is a Sepik language spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua-New Guinea.

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nigilu". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.