Ketengban language

Ketengban, also known as Kupel, is a Papuan language of West Papua, near the Papua New Guinea border.

Ketengban
Oktengban
RegionWest Papua
Native speakers
10,000 (2000)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Mek
    • Eastern
      • Ketengban
Language codes
ISO 639-3xte
Glottologkete1254[2]

Dialects are Okbab (Okbap), Bime, Onya (Eastern Una; cf. Una), Omban (Kamume), Sirkai.

References
  • John Louwerse, 1988, The morphosyntax of Una in relation to discourse structure
  1. Ketengban at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ketengban". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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