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Enga questions : structural and semantic studies
Enga is the language of approximately 150,000 speakers in the
Wapenamanda, Wabag, and Laiagam areas of the Western Highlands
of New Guinea. Enga is the name given them by outsiders, in
this case the Melpa of the Mt. Hagen area to the east. No
feeling of "Enganess" existed before the Pax Australiana,
although it is slowly developing now as the Enga begin to
discover that their universe is considerably larger than their
own clan territory and that of the people with whom they
customarily traded or fought. They have now discovered that
there is a large group of people with whom they share one
particular feature which at the same time sets them apart from
other such large groups: their language, edakáli pià 'people
talk' or aé pià 'local talk'