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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Pacific > Papua New Guinea > Gorakor

Gorakor

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3goc

Population  2,740 (1979 census).
Region  Morobe Province, Mumeng District, including Yanta.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 15, reference number 687
Dialects  Yanta. In Mumeng language chain. Some intelligibility with Patep [ptp].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Western Oceanic, North New Guinea, Huon Gulf, South, Hote-Buang, Buang, Mumeng
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 15%–25%. Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%.
Comments  SVO. Swidden agriculturalists.