Ketengban language

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

Ketengban
Oktengban
RegionHighland Papua
EthnicityKetengban
Native speakers
10,000 (2000)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
  • Mek
    • Eastern
      • Ketengban
Language codes
ISO 639-3xte
Glottologkete1254

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

References

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  • John Louwerse, 1988, The morphosyntax of Una in relation to discourse structure
  1. ^ Ketengban at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)