Niksek language
Niksek is a Sepik language of northern Papua New Guinea. The two dialects, Paka and Gabiano, are rather divergent. Niksek is spoken in Niksek village (4.696824°S 142.538469°E) of Niksek/Paka ward in Tunap-Hunstein Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3]
| Niksek | |
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| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 930 (2003)[1] |
Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gbe |
| Glottolog | niks1238[2] |
| Coordinates: 4.696824°S 142.538469°E | |
References
- Niksek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Niksek". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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