Umanakaina language

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

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

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

References

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