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Nakanai is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Otherwise known as Nakonai, it also has dialects in the form of Losa, Bileki, Vere, Ubae, and Maututu. The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal [n] has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by [l].

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  • Nakanai is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Otherwise known as Nakonai, it also has dialects in the form of Losa, Bileki, Vere, Ubae, and Maututu. The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal [n] has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by [l]. The name given to the Nakanai people by the indigenous people, before the Tolai name of Nakanai was adopted, was either Muku or Muu. Those were derogatory words, and in Nakanai mean "to screw up the nose in distaste," and "humming sound made by masked men," respectively. (en)
  • ナカナイ語（ナカナイご、Nakanai）とはニューブリテン島北部の西ニューブリテン州と東ニューブリテン州の境界部にて話されているオーストロネシア系言語の一つである。 (ja)
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  • Austronesian (en)
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  • Nakanai (en)
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  • Nakanai (en)
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  • Lakalai (en)
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  • ナカナイ語（ナカナイご、Nakanai）とはニューブリテン島北部の西ニューブリテン州と東ニューブリテン州の境界部にて話されているオーストロネシア系言語の一つである。 (ja)
  • Nakanai is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup. Otherwise known as Nakonai, it also has dialects in the form of Losa, Bileki, Vere, Ubae, and Maututu. The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal [n] has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by [l]. (en)
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  • ナカナイ語 (ja)
  • Nakanai language (en)
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  • Nakanai (en)
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