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Kosarek language

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Kosarek
Kosarek Yale, Mek Kosarek
Native toIndonesia
EthnicityYali people and Mek people
Native speakers
(2,300 cited 1993)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Mek
    • Northern
      • Kosarek–Nipsan
        • Kosarek
Dialects
  • Gilika (Kilika)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kkl
Glottologkosa1249

Kosarek (or Kosarek Yale, Mek Kosarek) is a Papuan language used in Kosarek District, Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua.[2]

Further reading

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  • Heeschen, Volker. 1992. A Dictionary of the Yale (Kosarek) Language: with Sketch of Grammar and English Index. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
  • Heeschen, Volker. 2000. Die Yale-Sprache, eine Papua-Sprache. In: Ludger Hoffmann (ed.), Sprachwissenschaft: Ein Reader, 759–774. 2nd edn. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

References

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  1. ^ Kosarek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Yali Kosarek". Peta Bahasa (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2024-05-25.