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Nai language

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Region
  
Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3
  
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Native speakers
  
750 (2010)

Glottolog
  
naii1241

Language family
  
Kwomtari Kwomtari–Nai Nai

Nai or Biaka is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Amanab District, Sandaun Province, in three villages: Konabasi, Biaka, and Amini.

Nai is one of the Kwomtari languages. However, due to an alignment error in the published data, Nai (as Biaka) was mistakenly placed in a spurious "Baibai" family with the Fas language Baibai; this was then linked back to the Kwomtari family as "Kwomtari–Baibai". (See Kwomtari–Fas languages for details.)

References

Nai language Wikipedia