Ikobi language
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Ikobi | |
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Mena | |
Region | Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 1,600 (2009)[1] |
Papuan Gulf ?
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ISO 639-3 | meb |
Glottolog | ikob1240 |
Ikobi, or Ikobi-Mena after its two varieties, is a Papuan language, or pair of languages, of Papua New Guinea. Wurm and Hattori (1981) treat the two varieties, Ikobi and Mena, as distinct languages, but Ethnologue 16 judges them to be one.
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