Doso language

Doso
Native to Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
 unknown (700 cited 1973)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 dol
Glottolog doso1239[2]

Doso is a language of New Guinea. It has 61% of its vocabulary in common with the nearly extinct Turumsa language, its only clear relative.[2] It is spoken near Kamula but does not appear to be related to it; not enough is known to tell if it may be related to other languages in the area.

References

  1. ↑ Doso at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. 1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Doso". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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