Mlap language

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Mlap
Kwansu
Region New Guinea
Native speakers
300 (2000) [1]
Nimboran
  • Mlap
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kja
Glottolog mlap1238 [2]

Mlap, or Kwansu (obsolete), is a Papuan language of Indonesia. It is spoken in just to the west of Lake Sentani.

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Lake Sentani lake in Papua, Western New Guinea, Indonesia

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References

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