Korowai language
Korowai (Kolufaup) is a Nuclear-Trans-New-Guinean language spoken in the island of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken by the Korowai people who live along the Becking River.
| Korowai | |
|---|---|
| Kolufaup | |
| Region | Becking River, Papua, Indonesia |
| Ethnicity | Korowai |
Native speakers | 3,500 (2007)[1] |
Nuclear-Trans-New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | khe |
| Glottolog | koro1312[2] |
Notes
- Korowai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Korowai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
gollark: My laptop *has* one, but there are no Linux drivers for it...
gollark: I'm sure they totally won't run into any problems with people not having fingerprint scanners or anything!
gollark: I don't like biometrics and I can enter a password pretty fast.
gollark: Just have some of the front *not be a screen*.
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References
- The Korowai of Irian Jaya: Their Language in Its Cultural Context (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 9) by Gerrit J. Van Enk & Lourens de Vries (ISBN 0-19-510551-6).
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