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Purari is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. It is also known as Koriki, Evorra, I'ai, Maipua, and Namau. Namau is a colonial term which means deaf (lit. ), inattentive, or stupid . Today people of the Purari Delta find this term offensive. F.E. Williams reports that the [a a]n interpreter suggests that by some misunderstanding the name had its origin in the despair of an early missionary, who, finding the natives turned a deaf ear to his teaching, dubbed them all 'Namau'. . Koriki, I'ai, and Maipua refer to self-defining groups that make up the six groups that today compose the people who speak Purari. Along with the Baroi (formerly known as the Evorra, which was the name of a village site), Kaimari and the Vaimuru, these groups speak mutually intelligible dialects of Purari. Purari has been tentatively linked to the Eleman languages.
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