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.
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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 could, alternatively, give each melter a dedicated former and enforce the ore-supplied-in-pairs thing.
gollark: Maybe if I just *automatically* clean them out it'd be better.
gollark: At that point this design loses a lot of its advantages and runs slower.
gollark: You mean the *in*puts to the formers?
gollark: The melter/ingot former's 2.5x output is nice but outweighted by having to clean out a few ingots worth of liquid metal every run.
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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