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Umanakaina language

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Umanakaina
Gwedena
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province
Native speakers
(2,400 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3gdn
Glottologuman1240

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

Bibliography

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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

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  1. ^ Umanakaina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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  • Paradisec has a collection of materials from Tom Dutton (TD1) that include Umanakaina language materials.