Faiwol

Facts

  • Language: Faiwol
  • Alternate names: Angkiyakmin, Faiwolmin, Fegolmin, Kauwol, Wokeimin
  • Language code: fai
  • Language family: Trans-New Guinea, Ok-Awyu, Ok, Mountain (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 4,500
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Voorhoeve (1975) lists a language "Kauwol", but this is likely (a dialect of?) Faiwol. It it said to have about 500 speakers, most of whom live on the Papua New Guinean side of the border.