Kobon language

Kobon
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province, Middle Ramu District, and Western Highlands Province on Kaironk River in lower Jimi River area north of Mt. Hagen
Native speakers
10,000 (2007)[1]
4,000 monolinguals (2007?)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kpw
Glottologkobo1249
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Kobon (pronounced [xombon], [k͡xombon] or [kʰombon]) is a language of Papua New Guinea. It has somewhere around 90–120 verbs[citation needed].

Kobon has a pandanus language, spoken when harvesting karuka.[3]

  1. ^ Kobon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Kobon language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Pawley, Andrew (1992). "Kalam Pandanus Language: An Old New Guinea Experiment in Language Engineering". In Dutton, Tom E.; Ross, Malcolm; Tryon, Darrell (eds.). The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock. Pacific Linguistics Series C. Vol. 110. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. pp. 313–334. ISBN 0-85883-400-6. ISSN 0078-7558. OCLC 222981840.