Kopar language
Kopar is a Lower Sepik language of Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea.
| Kopar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 540 (2000 census)[1] |
Ramu–Lower Sepik
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xop |
| Glottolog | kopa1248[2] |
| Coordinates: 3.863426°S 144.525852°E | |
Distribution
The Kopar language is spoken in Kopar village (3.863426°S 144.525852°E), Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4] It is also spoken in the villages of Wongan (3.999326°S 144.532123°E) and Singrin (3.939457°S 144.430355°E).[5]:349
Status
Kopar is a moribund language.[5]:350 It has historically influenced Tayap, a language isolate.[5]:349
gollark: Those are just types of rock, not all rocks.
gollark: Also name all supercontinents and explain the Great Unconformity.
gollark: Natural ≠ good.
gollark: You know geology? Name all rocks.
gollark: They just get cheese shipped up there periodically.
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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