Kenati is a poorly documented
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
spoken by only about 950 people (in 1990) in
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. It is also known as Aziana, Ganati, Kenathi. Specifically, it is spoken in 3 villages located in
Eastern Highlands Province
Eastern Highlands is a highlands province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Goroka. The province covers an area of 11,157 km², and has a population of 579,825 (2011 census). The province shares a common administrative boundary w ...
, in
Obura-Wonenara District of Papua New Guinea.
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Wurm (1960, 1975) placed it in his East New Guinea Highlands family as an independent branch. Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to confirm this, and left it unclassified. However, ''Ethnologue'' (2009) classified it more specifically with the Kainantu languages, another branch of Wurm's East Highlands.][
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References
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Kenati Language
Kainantu–Goroka languages
Endangered languages of Oceania
Unclassified languages of New Guinea
Endangered unclassified languages
Endangered Papuan languages
Languages of Eastern Highlands Province
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