Mountain Koiali language

Mountain Koiari
Region Papua New Guinea
Ethnicity Koiari people
Native speakers
 4,000 (2000 census)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
kpx – Mountain Koiali
bdf – Biage
Glottolog moun1252  Mountain Koiali[2]

Mountain Koiari (Koiali) is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is not very close to the other language which shares its name, Grass Koiari. Half of speakers are monolingual.

References

  1. ↑ Mountain Koiali at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
    Biage at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mountain Koiali". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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