Umanakaina language

Umanakaina
Gwedena
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province
Native speakers	(2,400 cited 1987) [1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Dagan Umanakaina
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gdn
Glottolog	uman1240

Umanakaina, or Gwedena, is a Papuan language of New Guinea. It is a rather divergent member of the Dagan family.

Bibliography

Word lists

• Anonymous. 1914. Vocabularies of languages spoken by the people of the Gwoiru mountains, and the Kanamara people on the main range and from Paiwa, Goodenough Bay, N. E. D. Papua Annual Report 1913–1914: 184–184.
• Ray, Sidney H. 1938. The languages of the Eastern and South-Eastern Division of Papua. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 68: 153–208. (Also includes word lists of Dima and other languages)

References

1. Umanakaina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links

• Paradisec has a collection of materials from Tom Dutton (TD1) that include Umanakaina language materials.