Korupun-Sela Language
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Korupun (Korapun) 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 ...
spoken in
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,
Highland Papua Highland Papua () is a provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of the Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago (often shortened to La Pago). It covers an area of and had a population of 1,467,050 according to ...
. Dialects are Korupun (Duram), Dagi, Sisibna (Gobugdua), Deibula, (Western) Sela. It is also known as ''Kimyal of Korupun''; Kimyal is another name for
Nalca ''Gunnera tinctoria'', known as giant rhubarb, Chilean rhubarb, or ''nalca'', is a flowering plant species native to southern Chile and neighboring zones in Argentina. It is unrelated to rhubarb, as the two plants belong to different orders, but ...
. Indonesian Kemendikbud classified the former as ''Mek Nalca'', while Korupun-Sela is classified as ''Kimyal''. According to Timothy Usher, the "Korupun" described by Bromley is a separate, though closely related, language.


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Mek languages Languages of Western New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub