Western Dani language
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Western Dani, or Lani, is a Nuclear-Trans-New Guinea language. It is the Papuan language with the most speakers in Indonesian New Guinea. It is spoken by the Lani people in the province of Highland Papua.
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Western Dani | |
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Lani | |
Region | Highland Papua, Indonesia |
Ethnicity | Lani |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1993)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dnw |
Glottolog | west2594 |
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The Baliem Valley tribes are called Oeringoep and Timorini in literature from the 1920s, but those names are no longer used.