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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Humene

Humene

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3huf

Population  940 (2000).
Region  Central Province, Sogeri Plateau lower plateau; adjacent plain between Gaire and Kapakapa villages. Manugoro is principal village.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 16, reference number 733
Dialects  Lagume (Lakume, Manukolu), Humene. Lexical similarity: 65%–74% with Kwale [ksj] (most similar).
Classification  Trans-New Guinea, Southeast Papuan, Kwalean
Language use  Some also use Hiri Motu [hmo] and Motu [meu] or English.