Kaki Ae language


Kaki Ae, or Tate, is a language with about 500 speakers, half the ethnic population, near Kerema, in Papua New Guinea.

Classification

Kaki Ae has been proposed to be related to the Eleman languages, but the connections appear to be loans. Søren Wichmann tentatively considers it to be a separate, independent group. Pawley and Hammarström treat Kaki Ae as a language isolate due to low cognacy rates with Eleman, and consider the few similarities shared with Eleman to be due to borrowed loanwords.

Distribution

Kaki Ae is spoken in Auri, Kupiano, Kupla, Lou , Ovorio, and Uriri villages in Central Kerema Rural LLG, Gulf Province.

Pronouns

The Kaki Ae pronouns are:

Phonology

Kaki Ae has no distinction between and.