Nema, a.k.a. Gusan, is one of the
Finisterre languages
The Finisterre languages are a language family, spoken in the Finisterre Range of Papua New Guinea, classified within the original Trans–New Guinea languages, Trans–New Guinea (TNG) proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG ident ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. Speakers use the name "Nema"; "Gusan" is found in the literature. A
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*Measuring people's ability to speak and understand another language (usually community based, not school based) (multilingualism)
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team visited the area and reported that the name "Nema" is locally known, though "Gusan" had been used to refer to the language by some linguistic publications in the past.
[Retsema, Thom, Margaret Potter and Rachel Gray. 2009. Mungkip: an endangered language. SIL Electronic Survey report 2009-015.
http://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/88/56/50/88565026574113254980747287043870
517665/silesr2009_015.pdf) Web access/ref>
]
References
Finisterre languages
Languages of Morobe Province
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