Kove language

Kove
Region New Britain
Native speakers
 6,800 (1994)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kvc
Glottolog kove1237[2]

Kove is one of the Austronesian languages of New Britain.

The Kove independent pronouns are given in the following table.[3]

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)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kove". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ 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.


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