Kaki Ae language

Kaki Ae
Tate
Region New Guinea
Ethnicity spoken by 40% (no date)[1]
Native speakers
 630 (2004)[2]
Eleman
  • Kaki Ae
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tbd
Glottolog kaki1249[3]

Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea. It appears to be related to the Eleman languages. Søren Wichmann (2013)[4] tentatively considers it to be a separate, independent group.

The pronouns are:

sgpl
1 naonu'u
2 aoofe
3 eraera-he

Kaki Ae has no distinction between /t/ and /k/. (The forms kaki and tate of the name both derive from the rather pejorative Toaripi name for the people, Tati.) It has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kaki Ae language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. ↑ Kaki Ae at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kaki Ae". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Wichmann, Søren. 2013. A classification of Papuan languages. In: Hammarström, Harald and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact and classification of Papuan languages (Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, Special Issue 2012), 313-386. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
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