Korafe language

Korafe
Korafe-Yegha
Gaina
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Oro Province
Native speakers
 (1,400 Gaina and Bareji cited 1971)[1]
3,600 Korafe and Yegha (2003)
Dialects
  • Korafe
  • Yegha[2]
  • Gaina
  • Bareji[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
kpr – Korafe-Yegha
gcn – Gaina-Bareji
Glottolog gaen1235[4]

Korafe is a Papuan language spoken in Oro Province, in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Binanderean family of the Trans–New Guinea phylum of languages.

Orthography

[5]
Uppercase letters ABDEFGGhIJKMNORSTUVY
Lowercase letters abdefgghIjkmnorstuvy
IPA /ɑ//b//d//e//ɸ//ɡ//ɣ//i//ʤ//k//m//n//o//ɾ//s//t//u//β//j/

References

  1. ↑ Korafe-Yegha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Gaina-Bareji at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ not the same as the Yegha dialect of Ewage
  3. ↑ not the same as the Bareji language
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gaena–Korafe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Farr, James; Farr, Cynthia (2008). "The Korafe-Yegha Dictionary" (PDF).
  • "The Korafe-Yegha Dictionary" (PDF).
  • Korafe-Yegha Swadesh List
  • "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF).
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