Korowai

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ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Kolufaup

Population

3,500 (2007 P. de Vries). 3,000 monolinguals.

Location

Papua Province. Southeast inland area, northeast of Senggo town; between upper Sirac and Digul rivers.

Language Maps

Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification

Dialects

North Korowai, South Korowai. Dialects have high mutual intelligibility. Lexical similarity: 90% with dialects.

Language Use

Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Neutral to positive attitudes. Younger village speakers also use Indonesian [ind].

Language Development

Literacy rate in L1: Below 1% (2007 P. de Vries). Literacy rate in L2: Less than 1% in Indonesian (2007 P. de Vries). Grammar.

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

Traditional religion.