Koiwat language

Koiwat is one of the Ndu languages of Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea.

Koiwat
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
800 (2000 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kxt
Glottologkoiw1243
ELPKoiwat[2]

It is spoken in Kamangaui (4.116371°S 143.593484°E / -4.116371; 143.593484 (Kamangaui)), Koiwat (4.089795°S 143.555238°E / -4.089795; 143.555238 (Koiwut)), Paiambit (4.11068°S 143.69616°E / -4.11068; 143.69616 (Paimbit)), and Seraba (4.063985°S 143.629118°E / -4.063985; 143.629118 (Sarapa)) villages of Koiwat ward, Angoram-Middle Sepik Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[3][4]

References
  1. Koiwat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Koiwat.
  3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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