Manambu is one of the

Ndu languages The Ndu languages are the best known language family, family of the Sepik languages of East Sepik Province in northern Papua New Guinea. ''Ndu'' is the word for 'man' in the languages that make up this group. The languages were first identified as ...

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region of northern

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. A Manambu-based

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is used with speakers of Kwoma. Manambu has been extensively documented by

Alexandra Aikhenvald Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald (''Eichenwald'') is a Russian Australian linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawak language family (including Tariana) of the Brazilian Amazon basin. She is a professor at the James Co ...

in a comprehensive grammar.

External links

* Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's
DL1
that include Manambu language materials

References

(2008), ''The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea.'' Oxford University Press. Languages of East Sepik Province Ndu languages {{papuan-lang-stub