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