Mountain Koiali language

Mountain Koiari
Region Papua New Guinea
Ethnicity Koiari people
Native speakers
4,000 (2000 census)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
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

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


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