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

Kol

A language of Papua New Guinea

ISO 639-3kol

Population  4,000 (1991 SIL). 1,300 Sui, Kol (1987).
Region  East New Britain Province, Pomio District, Open Bay inland to Waterfall Bay coast. Most on island’s south side.
Language map  Papua New Guinea, Map 12, reference number 585
Alternate names   Kola, Kole
Dialects  Sui, Kol (Nakgaktai).
Classification  Language isolate
Writing system  Latin script.
Comments  SVO. Swidden agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Anonymous. 2011. Kol Organised Phonology Data.  Available online

LINDRUD, Eivor; LINDRUD, Stellan, authors. 1992. "A discourse-word-letter method for teaching reading."

LINDRUD, Eivor; LINDRUD, Stellan, authors. 1992. "Report on a literacy method used in Kol Prep schools."

LINDRUD, Stellan, author. 1980. "The languages and communities of the Open Bay, Wide Bay and Southern Gazelle Peninsula region."