Korak language

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Korak
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
510 (2003) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 koz
Glottolog kora1296 [2]

Korak is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

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References

  1. Korak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Korak". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.