Nafi Language
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Nafi, also known as Sirak, is an
Austronesian language The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken b ...
of
Morobe Province Morobe is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital and largest city is Lae. The province covers 33,705 km2, with a population of 674,810 (2011 census), and since the division of Southern Highlands Province ...
,
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 ...
. It is spoken in the single village of Nambom (also known as Banzain village) () in Gamiki ward, Wain-Erap Rural LLG. Ethnic Nafi people living in Popof village () have since switched to speaking Nakama, a Trans-New Guinea language. Intermarriages frequently occur between the two villages.


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Markham languages Languages of Morobe Province {{NNGuinea-lang-stub