Andai language

Andai
Upper Arafundi
Meakambut
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	East Sepik Province
Native speakers	440 (2017)[1]
Language family	Madang – Upper Yuat Upper Yuat Arafundi Andai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	afd
Glottolog	anda1283  Andai meak1234  Meakambut
ELP	Meakambut

Andai (Meakambut, Pundungum, Wangkai) is an Arafundi language of Papua New Guinea.

Locations

Kassell, et al. (2018) list Namata, Kupina, Kaiyam, Andambit, and Awarem as the villages where Nanubae is spoken.[2] In the Andai area, the Mongolo (or Meakambut, after one of their former villages) people, a group of about 50–60 people, live east of the Arafundi River; Kassell, et al. (2018) believe this may be a separate ethnolinguistic group.[2]

According to Ethnologue, it is spoken in Andambit (4.953147°S 143.586822°E / -4.953147; 143.586822 (Andimbit)), Awarem, Imboin (4.792407°S 143.661468°E / -4.792407; 143.661468 (Imboin)), Kaiyam (4.918344°S 143.528512°E / -4.918344; 143.528512 (Kaiyam)), Kupini (4.942655°S 143.581077°E / -4.942655; 143.581077 (Kupin)), and Namata mountain (4.860561°S 143.598304°E / -4.860561; 143.598304 (Namata)) villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][3]

References

1. Andai at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Kassell, Alison, Bonnie MacKenzie and Margaret Potter. 2018. Three Arafundi Languages: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Andai, Nanubae, and Tapei. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2017-003.
3. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.