Wolani (Wodani) is a

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spoken by about 5,000 people in the

Paniai lakes The Paniai Lakes, originally known as the Wissel Lakes, are the three large, freshwater lakes in Central Papua, Indonesia: Paniai, Tigi, and Tage. Lakes Paniai and Tage are located in the Paniai Regency, while Lake Tigi is located in Deiyai Regen ...

region of the Indonesian province of

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. It is related to the

Moni Moni or Mone ( Kamkata-vari: ''Mone''/''Mune''), also known as Mandi (from Prasun) was, after Imra, the second-most important god in the pre-Islamic pantheon of the Nuristani people. With his breath, Imra created Moni and Gish. Moni was believed ...

, Ekari, Auye, and

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languages and may be related to the

Dani languages The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley in the Highland Papua Highland Papua () is a provinces of Indonesia, province of In ...

. Documentation is quite limited.

*de Bruijn, J. V. 1941. ''Verslag van een Tocht naar Beura, het Stroomgebied van de Beurong en Lelop, het Stroomgebiet van de Ielorong in Centraal Nieuw Guinea door den Controleur der Wisselmeren van 9 Juni 1941 tot 7 Augustus 1941'' eport of a Survey Trip to Beura, the Beurong and Lelop Watersheds, the Ielorong Watershed in Central New Guinea by the Wissel Lakes Administrator the 9th of June. 1941 to the 7th of August 1941 Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Ministerie van Koloniën: Kantoor Bevolkingszaken Nieuw-Guinea te Hollandia: Rapportenarchief, 1950–1962, nummer toegang 2.10.25, inventarisnummer 256. *Larson, Gordon F. 1977. Reclassification of some Irian Jaya Highlands language families: A lexicostatistical cross-family subclassification with historical implications. ''Irian'' 6(2): 3–40. *Voorhoeve, Clemens L. 1975. ''Languages of Irian Jaya, Checklist: Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists''. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

References

* Doble, Marion. 1962. Essays on Kapauku grammar. ''Nieuw Guinea Studiën'' 6:152-5, 211-8, 279-98. * Drabbe, Peter. 1952. ''Spraakkunst van het Ekagi, Wisselmeren, Nederlands Nieuw Guinea''. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.

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* Paradisec has an open access collection from Arthur Cappell (AC2) tha
includes Wolani materials
Paniai Lakes languages Languages of Western New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub

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