Nai language

Nai
	Biaka
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	750 (2010)[1]
Language family	Kwomtari Kwomtari–Nai Nai; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bio
Glottolog	naii1241[2]

Nai or Biaka is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Amanab District, Sandaun Province, in three villages: Konabasi, Biaka, and Amini.

Nai is one of the Kwomtari languages. However, due to an alignment error in the published data, Nai (as Biaka) was mistakenly placed in a spurious "Baibai" family with the Fas language Baibai; this was then linked back to the Kwomtari family as "Kwomtari–Baibai". (See Kwomtari–Fas languages for details.)

References

↑ Nai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Baron, Wietze (1983). "Kwomtari survey" (PDF).

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[e18-1] Nai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.