Kokoda language

Kokoda
Native to	West Papua, Indonesia
Region	Bird's Head Peninsula
Native speakers	unknown (3,700 cited 1991)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea South Bird's Head South Bird's Head proper Kokoda
Dialects	Negri Besar (Kokoda) Kasuweri (Komudago) Tarof
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`xod`
Glottolog	`koko1265`^[2]

Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.

References

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

South Bird's Head languages

Inanwatan	Duriankere Suabo

Konda–Yahadian	Konda Yahadian

South Bird's Head proper	Arandai Kaburi Kais Kokoda Puragi Weriagar

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