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Mountain Koiali language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6925030 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mountain Koiari (Koiali) is a language of Oro Province and Central Province, Papua New Guinea. It is not very similar to the other language which shares its name, Grass Koiari. Half of its speakers are monolingual.

It is spoken in Barai, Efogi (9.156234°S 147.665661°E / -9.156234; 147.665661 (Efogi No. 1)), and Koiari villages of Koiari Rural LLG, as well as in Hiri Rural LLG.

Phonology

Consonants

/ɸ, x/ can be voiced as [β, ɣ] in word-medial position.

/t, l/ can be lenited as [ɾ, z] in word-medial position.

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“Mountain Koiali language” enters the record as language. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mountain, Koiali and language can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 88-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mountain, Koiali and language.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6925030. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mountain Koiali language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.