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Kokoda language

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Native to
  
West Papua, Indonesia

Native speakers
  
(3,700 cited 1991)

Region
  
Bird's Head Peninsula

ISO 639-3
  
xod

Language family
  
Trans–New Guinea South Bird's Head South Bird's Head proper Kokoda

Dialects
  
Negri Besar (Kokoda) Kasuweri (Komudago) Tarof

Kokoda is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua. The three dialects—Kokoda proper, Kasuweri, and Tarof—are divergent enough to sometimes be considered separate languages.

References

Kokoda language Wikipedia