Casuarina Coast Asmat language

Casuarina Coast Asmat is a Papuan language spoken along the Casuarina Coast of southern West New Guinea (in the region around the mouth of the Pulau River) by the Asmat people. It's the most divergent of the Asmat languages.

Casuarina Coast Asmat
Native toIndonesia
RegionCasuarina Coast, West Papua
EthnicityAsmat people
Native speakers
(9,000 cited 1991)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Asmat–Kamoro
    • Asmat
      • Casuarina Coast Asmat
Language codes
ISO 639-3asc
Glottologcasu1237[2]

References

  1. Casuarina Coast Asmat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Casuarina Coast Asmat". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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