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Kove language

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Kove
RegionNew Britain
Native speakers
(6,800 cited 1994)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kvc
Glottologkove1237
ELPKove

Kove is an Austronesian languages of New Britain.

The Kove independent pronouns are given in the following table.[2]

1 incl 1 excl 2 3
Singular yau veao veai
Plural taita yai amiu asiri
Dual tahua yahua amihua asihua
Group tangera yangera angera asingera

References

  1. ^ Kove at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Sato, Hiroko. 2013. Grammar of Kove: an Austronesian language of the West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. University of Hawai'i Ph.D. dissertation.