Korowai language

Korowai
Korowai
Kolufaup
Region	Becking River, South Papua, Indonesia
Ethnicity	Korowai
Native speakers	3,500 (2007)
Language family	Trans-New Guinea Asmat-Awyu-Ok Greater Awyu Becking-Dawi Korowai; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	khe
Glottolog	koro1312
ELP	Korowai

Korowai (Kolufaup) is a Trans-New-Guinean language spoken in South Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken by the Korowai people who live along the Becking River.

Phonology

Consonants^[2]
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p b	t d	ɟ ⟨j⟩	k g
Prenasalized	ᵐb ⟨mb⟩	ⁿd ⟨nd⟩		ᵑg ⟨ngg⟩
Fricative	ɸ ⟨f⟩	s		x ⟨kh⟩
Nasal	m	n
Approximant	w	l	j ⟨y⟩, ɥ ⟨hü⟩

Stress is unpredictable and phonemic.^[2]

^ Korowai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b ^c de Vries, Lourens; van Enk, Gerrit J. (1997). The Korowai of Irian Jaya: Their Language and its Cultural Context. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 9. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195105513.