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Zimakani language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ56740 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zimakani is a Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea by approximately 1,500 people.

References

Bibliography

The Unevangelized Fields Mission has texts (gospel tracts) of Zimakani.

Unevangelized Fields Mission. 1956. Jesu’ba Woituwoituda. Unevangelized Fields Mission.

Unevangelized Fields Mission. 1966. John’ba Lagitada Magata. Unevangelized Fields Mission.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zimakani language” as language. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zimakani and language.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zimakani and language providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zimakani language”, the useful work is to connect “language” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56740. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 1966.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zimakani language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.