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Mountain Koiari
RegionOro Province, Papua New Guinea
EthnicityKoiari people
Native speakersMountain Koiari: 4,000? (2000 census)
Biage: 1,100
Language familyTrans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
kpx – Mountain Koiali
bdf – Biage
Glottologmoun1252  Mountain Koiali

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

It is spoken in Barai, Efogi (9°09′22″S 147°39′56″E / 9.156234°S 147.665661°E / -9.156234; 147.665661 (Efogi No. 1)), and Koiari villages of Koiari Rural LLG, as well as in Hiri Rural LLG.

References

  1. Mountain Koiali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
    Biage at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
Southeast Papuan languages
Koiarian
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Yareban
Mailuan
Dagan


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