Kopar language

Kopar
Kopar
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	East Sepik Province
Native speakers	540 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Ramu–Lower Sepik Lower Sepik (Nor–Pondo) Nor? Kopar; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xop
Glottolog	kopa1248[2]
	Coordinates: 3.863426°S 144.525852°E

Kopar is a Lower Sepik language of Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

The Kopar language is spoken in Kopar village (3.863426°S 144.525852°E / -3.863426; 144.525852 (Kopar)), Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4] It is also spoken in the villages of Wongan (3.999326°S 144.532123°E / -3.999326; 144.532123 (Wongan)) and Singrin (3.939457°S 144.430355°E / -3.939457; 144.430355 (Singarin)).[5]^:349

Status

Kopar is a moribund language.[5]^:350 It has historically influenced Tayap, a language isolate.[5]^:349

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References

Kopar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kopar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
Kulick, Don; Terrill, Angela (2019). A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language. Pacific Linguistics 661. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc. ISBN 9781501512209.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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[e18-1] Kopar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kopar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Ethnologue22-PNG-3] Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.

[UN-PNG-4] United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.

[Tayap-Kulick2019-5] Kulick, Don; Terrill, Angela (2019). A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language. Pacific Linguistics 661. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc. ISBN 9781501512209.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)