Central Asmat language

Central Asmat is a Papuan language of West New Guinea, spoken by the Asmat people. It has a number of dialects:

  • Keenok
  • Sokoni
  • Keenakap
  • Kawenak (subdialects: Simai, Kainak, Mismam, Mecemup)
Central Asmat
Native toIndonesia
RegionWest Papua
EthnicityAsmat people
Native speakers
(7,000 cited 1972)[1]
2,000 Yaosakor (1991), perhaps counted above
Trans–New Guinea
  • Asmat–Kamoro
Language codes
ISO 639-3cns – inclusive code
Individual code:
asy – Yaosakor Asmat
Glottologcent2247[2]

Yaosakor Asmat, assigned its own ISO code, is a variety of Central Asmat, not a distinct language.

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