Kombai language
| Kombai | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Guinea |
| Ethnicity | Kombai |
Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1991–2002)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: tyn – Kombai wng – Wanggom |
| Glottolog |
ndei1235[2] |
Kombai (Komboy) is a Papuan language of Indonesian New Guinea, it is spoken by the Kombai people. Tayan is a dialect.
Ethnologue records a Wanggom language which is similar to Kombai. However, this has not been attested as a distinct language.[3]
References
- ↑ Kombai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Wanggom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ndeiram". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑
- The Awyu–Ndumut languages in their linguistic and cultural context (University of Amsterdam)
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