Korafe language

Korafe
Korafe-Yegha
Gaina
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Oro Province
Native speakers
unknown (1,400 Gaina and Bareji cited 1971)[1]
3,600 Korafe and Yegha (2003)
Dialects
Korafe
Yegha[2]
Gaina
Bareji[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
kpr  Korafe-Yegha
gcn  Gaina-Bareji
Glottolog gaen1235[4]

Korafe is a Papuan language spoken in Oro Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.

References

  1. Korafe-Yegha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Gaina-Bareji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. not the same as the Yegha dialect of Ewage
  3. not the same as the Bareji language
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gaena–Korafe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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