Kopar
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
20 (2016)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xop
Glottologkopa1248
ELPKopar
Coordinates: 3°51′48″S 144°31′33″E / 3.863426°S 144.525852°E / -3.863426; 144.525852 (Kopar)

Kopar is a Lower Sepik language of Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

The Kopar language is spoken in Kopar village (3°51′48″S 144°31′33″E / 3.863426°S 144.525852°E / -3.863426; 144.525852 (Kopar)), Marienberg Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[1][2] It is also spoken in the villages of Wongan (3°59′58″S 144°31′56″E / 3.999326°S 144.532123°E / -3.999326; 144.532123 (Wongan)) and Singrin (3°56′22″S 144°25′49″E / 3.939457°S 144.430355°E / -3.939457; 144.430355 (Singarin)).[3]: 349 

Status

Kopar is a moribund language.[3]: 350  It has historically influenced Tayap, a language isolate.[3]: 349 

References

  1. ^ a b Kopar at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  3. ^ a b c Kulick, Don; Terrill, Angela (2019). A Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap: The Life and Death of a Papuan Language. Pacific Linguistics 661. Boston/Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Inc. ISBN 9781501512209.
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