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Kaki Ae language

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Region
  
New Guinea

ISO 639-3
  
tbd

Native speakers
  
630 (2004)

Glottolog
  
kaki1249

Ethnicity
  
spoken by 40% (no date)

Language family
  
Unclassified; proposed links to Eleman

Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea.

The pronouns are:

Kaki Ae has no distinction between /t/ and /k/. It has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans.

References

Kaki Ae language Wikipedia