Mountain Koiali language

Mountain Koiari
Region	Papua New Guinea
Ethnicity	Koiari people
Native speakers	4,000 (2000 census)^[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Koiarian Koiaric Mountain Koiari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `kpx` – Mountain Koiali `bdf` – Biage
Glottolog	`moun1252` (Mountain Koiali)^[2]

Mountain Koiari (Koiali) is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is not very close to the other language which shares its name, Grass Koiari. Half of speakers are monolingual.

References

↑ Mountain Koiali at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Biage at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mountain Koiali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Southeast Papuan languages

Koiarian	Grass Koiari Mountain Koiari Koitabu Barai Namiae Ese Ömie

Kwalean	Humene Uare Mulaha

Manubaran	Doromu Maria

Yareban	Moikodi Aneme Wake Bariji Nawaru Yareba

Mailuan	Bauwaki Domu Binahari Morawa Mailu Laua

Dagan	Daga Mapena Maiwa Dima Ginuman Kanasi Onjob Umanakaina Turaka.

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