Western Dani language

Western Dani
Western Dani
Lani
Region	Highland Papua, Indonesia
Ethnicity	Lani
Native speakers	(180,000 cited 1993)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea West Trans–New Guinea Irian Highlands ? Dani languages Dani proper Western Dani; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dnw
Glottolog	west2594

Western Dani, or Lani, is the most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea. It is spoken by the Lani people in the province of Highland Papua. The Baliem Valley tribes are called Oeringoep and Timorini in literature from the 1920s, but those names are no longer used.

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