Ketengban language

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Ketengban
Oktengban
Region Highland Papua
Ethnicity Ketengban
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 2000) [1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Mek
    • Eastern
      • Ketengban
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xte
Glottolog kete1254

Ketengban, also known as Kupel, is a Papuan language spoken in Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia, near the Papua New Guinea border.

Dialects are Okbab (Okbap), Bime, Onya (Eastern Una; cf. Una), Omban (Kamume), Sirkai.

References

  1. Ketengban at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)