Kowan languages
The Kowan languages are a small family of languages spoken in the Adelbert Range area of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and first identified by Malcolm Ross.
| Kowan | |
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| Geographic distribution | Madang Province |
| Linguistic classification | Northeast New Guinea?
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| Glottolog | kowa1247[1] |
The languages are Waskia, with 20,000 speakers, and Korak, with 500.
Further reading
- Ross, Malcolm. 2014. Proto-Korak-Waskia. TransNewGuinea.org.
gollark: I see.
gollark: Unfortunate how, bee entity of λ class?
gollark: I took the majority of the code from Minoteaur.
gollark: I do not use "chicken scheme" unironically/bigly.
gollark: No, it is "nim".
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kowan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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