Korupun language

Korupun
Sela
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	8,000 (1996)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Mek Korupun
Dialects	Korupun (Duram) Dagi Sisibna (Gobugdua) Deibula Sela
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kpq`
Glottolog	`koru1245` (Korupun-Sela)^[2] `kora1298` (Korapun-Bromley)^[3]

Korupun (Korapun) is a Papuan language of West Papua. Dialects are Korupun (Duram), Dagi, Sisibna (Gobugdua), Deibula, (Western) Sela. It is also known as Kimyal of Korupun; Kimyal is another name for Nalca.

According to Timothy Usher, the "Korupun" described by Bromley is a separate, though closely related, language.^[2]

References

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

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