Arandai is a dialect cluster of Teluk Bintuni Regency in West Papua, Indonesia.Voorhoeve, Clemens L. 1985. Some notes on the Arandai language. Irian 8: 3–40. In Teluk Bintuni Regency, it is spoken in Aranday, Kamundan, and Weriagar districts.
Names and varieties The treatment at Ethnologue appears to be inconsistent. ISO codes are assigned to two languages, "Arandai" and "Kemberano", the latter of which is also called Arandai. They are said to have 85% lexical similarity, which would make them dialects of one language. However, the two dialects given for Arandai, also called Kemberano and Arandai ( Tomu and Dombano), are said to have only 71% lexical similarity, making them different languages. Dialects of Kemberano (Weriagar) are listed as Weriagar (Kemberano) and Barau.
Additional alternative names of Arandai/Kemberano/Dombano–Tomu are given as Jaban (Yaban), Sebyar, Sumuri.
An additional name of Kemberano/Arandai/Barau–Weriagar is given as Kalitami.
Linguasphere 2010 makes a more consistent distinction:
20-HD Tomu–Kemberano 20-HDA Tomu–Arandai; includes Yaban, Sebyar 20-HDA-a Tomu 20-HDA-b Arandai (Dombano) 20-HDB Kemberano–Barau 20-HDB-a Kemberano (Kalitami) 20-HDB-b Weriagar 20-HDB-c Barau
Usher (2020) lists Dombano and Kemberano as distinct languages, with Dombano spoken inter alia in Tomu village, and Kemberano spoken in Kalitami and Wariagar.Usher, Timothy. 2020. NewGuineaWorld.
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