Kamoro language

The Kamoro language is an Asmat–Kamoro language spoken in New Guinea by approximately 8,000 people. Dialect diversity is notable, and Kamoro should perhaps not be considered a single language.[3]

Kamoro
RegionMiddle south coast of Western New Guinea
Native speakers
(8,000 cited 1987)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Asmat–Kamoro
    • Kamoro
Language codes
ISO 639-3kgq
Glottologkamo1255[2]

Varieties

'Dialects' are as follows.[3]

  • Yamur (far west around Yamur Lake and Etna Bay)
  • Western (Japakòparè, Kéàkwa and Umari Rivers, 450 speakers in 1953)
  • Tarjà (Opa River, 500 speakers in 1953)
  • Middle (Wàkia river to the upper Mimika river, 4,300 speakers in 1953)
  • Kàmora (Kàmora River, 400 speakers in 1953)
  • Wània (Wània River 1,300 speakers in 1953)
  • Mukumùga (Mukumùga river, 800 speakers in 1953)
gollark: I quite like them. HeatherMarie or something collects them, I believe.
gollark: It's in the Trade Hub, actually.
gollark: Wow, that is one cool/messy lineage.
gollark: What lineage does this hypothetical or not egg have?
gollark: _laments lack of trade hub communication functionality, again_

References
  1. Kamoro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kamoro". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. New Guinea World, Kamoro

Bibliography
  • Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the World's Languages (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 110
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