Ekari | |
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Mee | |
Spoken in | Indonesia |
Region | Papua |
Ethnicity | Ekari |
Native speakers | 100,000 (1985) |
Language family | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ekg |
Ekari (also Ekagi, Kapauku) is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken by about 100,000 people in the Paniai lakes region of the Indonesian province of Papua, including the villages of Mapia and Moanamani. This makes it the second-most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea after Western Dani. Language use is vigorous. Documentation is quite limited.