Kombai language

Kombai
Region New Guinea
Ethnicity Kombai
Native speakers
unknown (5,000 cited 1991–2002)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
tyn  Kombai
wng  Wanggom
Glottolog ndei1235[2]

Kombai (Komboy) is a Papuan language of Indonesian New Guinea, it is spoken by the Kombai people. Tayan is a dialect.

Ethnologue records a Wanggom language which is similar to Kombai. However, this has not been attested as a distinct language.[3]

References

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


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