Kamoro language

The Kamoro language is an Asmat–Kamoro language spoken in New Guinea by approximately 8,000 people. Dialect diversity is notable, and Kamoro should perhaps not be considered a single language.[3]

Kamoro
Region	Middle south coast of Western New Guinea
Native speakers	(8,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Asmat–Kamoro Kamoro
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kgq
Glottolog	kamo1255[2]

Varieties

'Dialects' are as follows.[3]

• Yamur (far west around Yamur Lake and Etna Bay)
• Western (Japakòparè, Kéàkwa and Umari Rivers, 450 speakers in 1953)
• Tarjà (Opa River, 500 speakers in 1953)
• Middle (Wàkia river to the upper Mimika river, 4,300 speakers in 1953)
• Kàmora (Kàmora River, 400 speakers in 1953)
• Wània (Wània River 1,300 speakers in 1953)
• Mukumùga (Mukumùga river, 800 speakers in 1953)

References

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

Bibliography

• Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the World's Languages (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 110