Western Dani language
| Western Dani | |
|---|---|
| Lani | |
| Region | Highland Papua, Indonesia |
| Ethnicity | Lani |
Native speakers | (180,000 cited 1993) |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dnw |
| Glottolog | west2594 |
Western Dani, or Lani, is a Nuclear-Trans-New Guinea language. It is the Papuan language with the most speakers in Indonesian New Guinea. It is spoken by the Lani people in the province of Highland Papua.
The Baliem Valley tribes are called Oeringoep and Timorini in literature from the 1920s, but those names are no longer used.