Kol language (Papua New Guinea)

Kol
Region New Britain
Native speakers
4,000  (1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kol
Glottolog kolp1236[2]

The Kol language is a language spoken in eastern New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. There are about 4000 speakers.

Kol appears to be a language isolate, though it may be distantly related to the poorly attested Sulka language.

See also

References

  1. Kol at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kol". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.