Chambri | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Chambri Lakes region, East Sepik Province |
Ethnicity | Chambri |
Native speakers | 800 (2006)[1] |
Ramu–Lower Sepik
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | can |
Glottolog | cham1313 |
ELP | Chambri |
The Chambri language is spoken by the Chambri people of the Chambri Lakes region in the Sepik basin of northern Papua New Guinea. Spellings in the older anthropological literature include Tchambuli, Tshamberi. Being completely surrounded by the Sepik languages, it is geographically separated from the rest of the Ramu–Lower Sepik language family, of which Chambri is a member.[2]