North Asmat language

North Asmat is a Papuan language of West New Guinea, spoken by the Asmat people. Dialects are Momogo, Pupis and Irogo.

North Asmat
Native toIndonesia
RegionWest Papua
EthnicityAsmat people
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1991)[1]
(population may include Keenok, a dialect of Central Asmat)
Trans–New Guinea
  • Asmat–Kamoro
Language codes
ISO 639-3nks
Glottolognort2917[2]

References

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