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Andai (Meakambut, Pundungum, Wangkai) is an Arafundi language of
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 ...
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Locations

Kassell, et al. (2018) list Namata, Kupina, Kaiyam, Andambit, and Awarem as the villages where Nanubae is spoken.Kassell, Alison, Bonnie MacKenzie and Margaret Potter. 2018.
Three Arafundi Languages: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Andai, Nanubae, and Tapei
'. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2017-003.
In the Andai area, the ''Mongolo'' (or ''Meakambut'', after one of their former villages) people, a group of about 50–60 people, live east of the Arafundi River; Kassell, et al. (2018) believe this may be a separate ethnolinguistic group. According to ''
Ethnologue ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'' (stylized as ''Ethnoloɠue'') is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensiv ...
'', it is spoken in Andambit (), Awarem, Imboin (), Kaiyam (), Kupini (), and Namata mountain () villages in Imboin ward, Karawari Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.


References

{{Languages of Papua New Guinea Arafundi languages Languages of East Sepik Province