Koitabu, or Koita, is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
in the
Port Moresby
(; Tok Pisin: ''Pot Mosbi''), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura) outside of Australia and New ...
area.
External links
* A number of collections at
Paradisecbr>
include Koita materials
References
*Dutton, T.E. "A Koita Grammar Sketch and Vocabulary". In Dutton, T.E. editor, ''Studies in languages of Central and South-East Papua''. C-29:281-412. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1975.
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Koiarian languages
Vulnerable languages
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