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
RegionBecking River, Papua, Indonesia
EthnicityKorowai
Native speakers
3,500 (2007)[1]
Nuclear-Trans-New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3khe
Glottologkoro1312[2]

Notes

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