Kutong language
Sakam | |
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Kutong | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 1,300 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | skm |
Glottolog | saka1292 |
Sakam, or Kutong, is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. It is the most divergent of its cluster, the Uruwa languages. It is spoken in Kamdaran, Makwa (6°10′49″S 146°39′22″E / 6.180159°S 146.656241°E), Sakam (6°09′10″S 146°40′39″E / 6.152909°S 146.677453°E), and Tamunat villages of Dinangat ward, Yus Rural LLG, Morobe Province.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ Sakam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
Categories:
- Finisterre languages
- Languages of Morobe Province
- Papuan language stubs
- Papua New Guinea stubs