Native to Indonesia Ethnicity Ekari ISO 639-3 ekg | Region Papua Native speakers (100,000 cited 1985) | |
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Language family Trans–New Guinea
West Trans–New Guinea
Paniai Lakes
Ekari | ||
Ekari (also Ekagi, Kapauku, Mee) is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by about 100,000 people in the Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of Papua, including the villages of Enaratoli, Mapia and Moanemani. This makes it the second-most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea after Western Dani. Language use is vigorous. Documentation is quite limited.
References
Ekari language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA