Central Asmat language

Central Asmat is a Papuan language of West New Guinea, spoken by the Asmat people. It has a number of dialects:

• Keenok
• Sokoni
• Keenakap
• Kawenak (subdialects: Simai, Kainak, Mismam, Mecemup)

Central Asmat
Native to	Indonesia
Region	West Papua
Ethnicity	Asmat people
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1972)[1] 2,000 Yaosakor (1991), perhaps counted above
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Asmat–Kamoro Asmat Central Asmat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cns – inclusive code Individual code: asy – Yaosakor Asmat
Glottolog	cent2247[2]

Yaosakor Asmat, assigned its own ISO code, is a variety of Central Asmat, not a distinct language.

References

1. Central Asmat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Yaosakor Asmat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central-Yaosakor Asmat". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.