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Umanakaina

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3: gdn

Population	2,400 (1987 SIL).
Region	Milne Bay Province, Rabaraba District, Goodenough Bay coast, inland between Mt. Gwoira and Mt. Simpson.
Language map	Papua New Guinea, Map 17, reference number 777
Alternate names	Gvede, Gweda, Gwede, Gwedena, Umanikaina
Dialects	Upper Ugu River, East Umanakaina. At least 2 dialects. Lexical similarity: 23% with Ginuman [gnm] (most similar).
Classification	Trans-New Guinea, Southeast Papuan, Dagan
Language use	Some also use English.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%–50%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. NT: 1999.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	‘Umanakaina’ is the name used by the people. SOV. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Umanakaina Organised Phonology Data.  

JESUDASON, Daniel; JESUDASON, Wei Lei, authors. 1992. Media—a bridge to literacy.

JESUDASON, Daniel; JESUDASON, Wei Lei, authors. 1992. The effectiveness of simplicity: a psycholinguistic approach to vernacular literacy in a Melanesian preliterate society.

Vernacular Publications

Umanakaina bususu bukai. 1991.

Umanakaina okai 1, 2. 1990.