Korovai (Kolufaup) is a Papuan language in New Guinea , Indonesia . It is spoken by representatives of the Korovai tribe, living in the southeastern part of the Indonesian province of Papua [2] . The number of native speakers is estimated at approximately 3,000 people [3] .
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| Self name | Kolufaup |
| Country |  Indonesia |
| Regions | New Guinea |
| Official status | people of Korovai |
| Total number of speakers | 3,500 (2007) [1] |
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| Category | Aviu-Dumut languages |
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The language belongs to the Avju-Dumut language family of Papua [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Korowai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). " Korowai ". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ The Korowai of Irian Jaya: Their Language in Its Cultural Context (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 9) by Gerrit J. Van Enk & Lourens de Vries ( ISBN 0-19-510551-6 ).
- ↑ Awyu-Dumut . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (17th Edition) (2013). Archived June 4, 2013. (Retrieved June 5, 2013)
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- New Guinea area languages and language study. V. 1. Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene, ed. by SA Wurm. Canberra, 1975.