Download coordinates as: Namia (Namie, Nemia) is a Sepik language spoken in Namea Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
It is also spoken in 19 villages of Yellow River District in East Sepik Province.
[5] Word-initially [r] may be heard in place of expected [t] in rapid speech if the previous word ends in a vowel.
There are 6 vowels in Namia:[6] The glides [j w] occur as allophones of /i u/, e.g. /iapu/ [japu] 'Sepik river', /uəla/ → [wəla] 'house'.
The following basic vocabulary words are from Foley (2005)[7] and Laycock (1968),[8] as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[9]