Kowan languages
| Kowan | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Madang Province |
| Linguistic classification |
Northeast New Guinea?
|
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | kowa1247[1] |
The Kowan languages are a small family of languages spoken in the Adelbert Range area of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, and first identified by Malcolm Ross.
The languages are Waskia, with 20,000 speakers, and Korak, with 500.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kowan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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