Kosarek language

Kosarek
Kosarek Yale, Mek Kosarek
Native to	Indonesia
Ethnicity	Yali people and Mek people
Native speakers	(2,300 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Mek Northern Kosarek–Nipsan Kosarek
Dialects	Gilika (Kilika)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kkl
Glottolog	kosa1249

Kosarek (or Kosarek Yale, Mek Kosarek) is a Papuan language used in Kosarek District, Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua.^[2]

Further reading

• Heeschen, Volker. 1992. A Dictionary of the Yale (Kosarek) Language: with Sketch of Grammar and English Index. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.
• Heeschen, Volker. 2000. Die Yale-Sprache, eine Papua-Sprache. In: Ludger Hoffmann (ed.), Sprachwissenschaft: Ein Reader, 759–774. 2nd edn. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

References

1. Kosarek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Yali Kosarek". Peta Bahasa (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2024-05-25.