Alternate Names: Mekeo-Kovio
Dialects: East Mekeo, Ninikani, North Mekeo, Northwest Mekeo (Kovio), West Mekeo. Dialects mutually unintelligible, except North and West Mekeo, but most Mekeo are reportedly familiar with neighboring dialects. Kovio not contiguous and is peripheral to other dialects. Lexical similarity: 81% between Kovio dialect and West Mekeo and North Mekeo dialects, 79% with East Mekeo, 87% between East and West Mekeo dialects.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 19,000 (2003 SIL).
Language Use: Positive attitudes.
Language Development: Grammar. NT: 1998.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Papua New Guinea
Other Comments: Above average education level.