Koiali, Mountain

KPX

developing

Alternate Names: Mountain Koiari

Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 50%–57% with Grass Koiari , (most similar).

Genealogy:

Trans-New Guinea
Southeast Papuan
Koiarian
Koiaric

Demographics: 4,000 (2000 census). 2,000 monolinguals.

Language Use: Also use Hiri Motu [hmo].

Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. NT: 1981.

Typology: SOV.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea