Kowan languages

Kowan
Geographic
distribution
Madang Province
Linguistic classification

Trans–New Guinea

Subdivisions
Glottolog kowa1247[1]

The Kowan languages are a small family of languages spoken in the Adelbert Range area of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and first identified by Malcolm Ross.

The languages are Waskia, with 20,000 speakers, and Korak, with 500.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kowan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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