Mwakai language

Mongol, also known as Mwakai, is a Keram language of Papua New Guinea. Despite the name, it is not related to Mongolian, which is spoken in Central Asia.

Mongol
Mwakai
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
340 (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mgt
Glottologmong1344[2]
Coordinates: 4.262293°S 143.917638°E / -4.262293; 143.917638 (Mongol)

It is spoken in Mongol village (4.262293°S 143.917638°E / -4.262293; 143.917638 (Mongol)), Keram Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4]

References

  1. Mongol at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mwakai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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