Molof language

Molof
Region Papua
Native speakers
 230 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 msl
Glottolog molo1262[2]

Molof (Ampas, Poule) is a poorly documented Papuan language spoken by about 200 people. Wurm (1975) placed it as an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea, but Ross (2005) could not find enough evidence to classify it.

References

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


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