Kaki Ae language

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Kaki Ae
Tate
Region New Guinea
Ethnicity spoken by 40% (no date)[1]
Native speakers
630 (2004)[2]
Unclassified; proposed links to Eleman
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tbd
Glottolog kaki1249[3]

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

The pronouns are:

sg pl
1 nao nu'u
2 ao ofe
3 era era-he

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.[3]

References

  1. Kaki Ae language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Kaki Ae at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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