Kaki Ae | |
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Tate | |
Region | New Guinea |
Ethnicity | spoken by 40% (no date) |
Native speakers
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630 (2004) |
Unclassified; proposed links to Eleman
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | kaki1249 |
Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea.
The pronouns are:
Kaki Ae has no distinction between /t/ and /k/. It has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans.