Mountain Koiali language
| Mountain Koiari | |
|---|---|
| Region | Oro Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Ethnicity | Koiari people |
Native speakers | 4,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:kpx – Mountain Koialibdf – Biage |
| Glottolog | moun1252 Mountain Koiali |
Mountain Koiari (Koiali) is a language of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. It is not very close to the other language which shares its name, Grass Koiari. Half of speakers are monolingual.
It is spoken in Barai, Efogi (9°09′22″S 147°39′56″E / 9.156234°S 147.665661°E), and Koiari villages of Koiari Rural LLG, as well as in Hiri Rural LLG.[2][3]
References
- ^ Mountain Koiali at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Biage at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
