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Language code: paa

Technical information about ISO 639 language code paa

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The table below provides technical details for the Papuan languages language, designated by the paa code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

paa

Name

Papuan languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
EngaHuliGrand Valley DaniKalamTelefol
Key facts
‘Papuan languages’ is a collective label for several hundred non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea and surrounding areasThey are divided into roughly 30–40 proposed families plus a number of isolates, so there is no single common ancestorFewer than a dozen Papuan languages exceed 100,000 speakers and many are severely endangeredThe Trans-New Guinea family is the largest proposed grouping, containing about 300 languagesMost modern writing uses a Latin-based orthography introduced by missionaries, but many languages historically had no written form.
Sample phrase

Apiya, ni yeti namba?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Papuan languages language, identified by the code paa, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Geographic' by its type.

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