Ketengban tribal area,
New Guinea
(Nongme, Umtambor, Urubool- and Sekame village)
Location:West Papua. New Guinea Island.
The Ketengban
people inhabit an area on the north-eastern side of the central mountain
range in the IndonesianProvince of Papua, on the island of New Guinea.
They live in an elevation varying from 6500feet in the mountainous
region to 1500 feet in the northern hills and number between 12000-14000
people.
Ketengban
language has been classified as Papuan stock and part of the Mek family
in the Trans new guinea phylum. There are four different dialects: the
Central, Eastern, Western and North-eastern, though all are mutually
intelligible.Bounded in the east by Eipomek and the Mek Language, to the
west by Apmisibil and the Nggalum language, and to the northwest
bordering the less inhabited lowlands, were people speak the more
unknown Lepki and Yetfa languages.
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