Ese language

Ese
Region Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 10,000  (2000)[1]
4,000 monolinguals (no date)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mcq
Glottolog esee1247[2]

Ese, or Managalasi, is a language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Muaturaina, Chimona, Dea, Akabafa, Nami, Mesari, Averi, Afore, Minjori, Oko, Wakue, Numba, Jimuni, Karira. Perhaps 40% of speakers are monolingual.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.