The Kamoro language is an Asmat–Kamoro language spoken in New Guinea by approximately 8,000 people. Dialect diversity is notable, and Kamoro should perhaps not be considered a single language.[2]

Varieties

'Dialects' are as follows.[2]

• Yamur (far west around Yamur Lake and Etna Bay)
• Western (Japakòparè, Kéàkwa and Umari Rivers, 450 speakers in 1953)
• Tarjà (Opa River, 500 speakers in 1953)
• Middle (Wàkia river to the upper Mimika River, 4,300 speakers in 1953)
• Kàmora (Kàmora River, 400 speakers in 1953)
• Wània (Wània River 1,300 speakers in 1953)
• Mukumùga (Mukumùga river, 800 speakers in 1953)

References

Bibliography

• Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the World's Languages (New York: Routledge, 1994) p. 110

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