Kokoda language

Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of Kokoda District, South Sorong Regency, West Papua. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.

Kokoda
Native toWest Papua, Indonesia
RegionKokoda District, South Sorong Regency, Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers
(3,700 cited 1991)[1]
Dialects
  • Negri Besar (Kokoda)
  • Kasuweri (Komudago)
  • Tarof
Language codes
ISO 639-3xod
Glottologkoko1265[2]

References

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


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