https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-08-17T12:01:43+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/central-west-new-guinea/momuna-mek/mek/east-mek/ketengban?rev=1719337266&do=diff Ketengban Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation Ketengban is spoken by 10,000-12,000 people (1990) living in the Star Mountains, east of the Eipo river valley (Eipomek) and west of the Sibil (Oksibil, Apmisibil) and Sobger rivers in the Jawawijaya district of Indonesia's Papua province. The staple foods of the Ketengban region are sweet potato and taro (Sims 1986: 15-16, Sims, Sims, Basini, Difur and Uropka 1990: x, q.v. Heeschen 1978: 6-7.) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/central-west-new-guinea/momuna-mek/mek/east-mek/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff East Mek Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation [under construction] The East Mek family consists of two closely related languages, Ketengban and Una, spoken … Additionally, … Eipo substrate … Subclassification The internal classification of East Mek is as follows: text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/families/trans-new-guinea/central-west-new-guinea/momuna-mek/mek/east-mek/una?rev=1719337266&do=diff Una Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Situation [under construction] Una is spoken by 3,500 people (1988) living in 40 villages … southern slopes of central cordillera … Jawawijaya district of Indonesia's Papua province … Ey, Sayn, Mo, Yamiyl, Kiynokk, Ira, Mina and Yay river valleys … Larye and Langda … The term Una /ʊna/ means “what?” (Louwerse 1978: 45-46, 1988: 1, Heeschen 1998: 17.)