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Nisa Anasi language

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Region
  
Indonesian Papua

Glottolog
  
nisa1239

Dialects
  
Anasi Nisa

Native speakers
  
(2,500 cited 1987–1993)

Language family
  
East Geelvink Bay? Anasi

ISO 639-3
  
Either: bpo – Anasi njs – Nisa

Nisa and Anasi, also known as Bapu, are dialects of a Papuan language of the Indonesian province of Papua, on the eastern shore of Cenderawasih Bay. Language use is vigorous.

Nisa-Anasi is lexically similar to the East Geelvink Bay languages and presumably belongs in that family.

References

Nisa-Anasi language Wikipedia