Anem

Facts

  • Language: Anem
  • Alternate names: Anêm
  • Language code: anz
  • Language family: Yele-West New Britain, West New Britain (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 843
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script, used since 1980s.

More information:

    Christian, traditional religion.

    "Some hypotheses relate Anem to other languages of New Britain, especially with Pete-Ata, and the East Papuan islands based on typology or pronouns (see Dunn et al. 2005a,b, Ross 2001, Thurston 1992) but the resemblances are much too minor to conclude a genealogical relation." (Hammarström, forthcoming)