Korupun (Korapun) is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
spoken in
Yahukimo Regency
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,
Highland Papua
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. Dialects are Korupun (Duram), Dagi, Sisibna (Gobugdua), Deibula, (Western) Sela. It is also known as ''Kimyal of Korupun''; Kimyal is another name for
Nalca
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. 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.
References
Mek languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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