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Kol language (Papua New Guinea)

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Region
  
New Britain

Language family
  
language isolate

Glottolog
  
kolp1236

Native speakers
  
(4,000 cited 1991)

ISO 639-3
  
kol

The Kol language is a language spoken in eastern New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. There are about 4000 speakers.

Kol appears to be a language isolate, though it may be distantly related to the poorly attested Sulka language.

References

Kol language (Papua New Guinea) Wikipedia