Kobon language

Kobon
Kobon
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province, Middle Ramu District, and Western Highlands Province on Kaironk River in lower Jimi River area north of Mt. Hagen
Native speakers	10,000 (2007); 4,000 monolinguals (2007?)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Madang Rai Coast–Kalam Kalam Kalam–Kobon Kobon; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kpw
Glottolog	kobo1249

Kobon (pronounced [xombon], [k͡xombon] or [kʰombon]) is a language of Papua New Guinea. It has somewhere around 90–120 verbs.

Kobon has a pandanus language, spoken when harvesting karuka.

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