Korowai

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Kolufaup

3,500 (2007 P. de Vries). 3,000 monolinguals.

Papua province: southeast inland area between upper Sirac and Digul rivers.

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6a (Vigorous).

North Korowai, South Korowai. Dialects have high mutual intelligibility. Lexical similarity: 90% with dialects.

Vigorous. All domains. Used by all. Mixed attitudes, from neutral to positive. Also use Indonesian [ind], particularly younger village speakers.

Literacy rate in L1: Below 1% (2007 P. de Vries). Literacy rate in L2: Less than 1% in Indonesian [ind] (2007 P. de Vries). Grammar.

Latin script [Latn].

Traditional religion.