Kombai language

Kombai
Region	Boven Digoel Regency, New Guinea
Ethnicity	Kombai
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1991–2002)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Greater Awyu Awyu–Dumut Kombai; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; tyn – Kombai; wng – Wanggom
Glottolog	ndei1235[2]

Kombai (Komboy) is a Papuan language of Boven Digoel Regency in Indonesian New Guinea. It is spoken by the Kombai people. Tayan is a dialect.

Ethnologue records a Wanggom language which is similar to Kombai. However, this has not been attested as a distinct language.[3]

References

Kombai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Wanggom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ndeiram". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- The Awyu–Ndumut languages in their linguistic and cultural context (University of Amsterdam)

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