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Umanakaina language information


Umanakaina
Gwedena
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province
Native speakers
(2,400 cited 1987)[1]
Language family
Trans–New Guinea
  • Dagan
    • Umanakaina
Language codes
ISO 639-3gdn
Glottologuman1240

Umanakaina, or Gwedena, is a Papuan language of New Guinea. It is a rather divergent member of the Dagan family.

  1. ^ Umanakaina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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