Kombio language

Kombio
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region East Sepik Province
Ethnicity Kombio (Akwun)
Native speakers
3,000 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Mwi
  • Wampukuamp
  • Yanimoi
  • Wampurun
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xbi
Glottolog komb1272[2]

Kombio is a Torricelli language spoken by a decreasing number of people in Papua New Guinea, as people shift to Tok Pisin. It also goes by the name Endangen. Mwi dialect is divergent, but there is some degree of difficulty in comprehension between other major dialects as well (Wampukuamp, Yanimoi, Wampurun).

References

  1. Kombio at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kombio". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Henry, Joan. 1992. Kombio Grammar Essentials. Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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