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The Korowai of Irian Jaya: Their Language in Its Cultural Context (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 9) by Gerrit J. Van Enk & Lourens de Vries (ISBN 0-19-510551-6). Korowai: in Encyclopedia of World Cultures – Supplement (Editors: Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard) pp.183–187 by Gerrit J.van Enk.
Korowai (Kolufaup) is a Trans-New-Guinean language spoken in South Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken by the Korowai people who live along the Becking River . Phonology
The Korowai people from the Mappi Regency in southern Papua are one of the indigenous tribes in Papua that still adhere to the traditions of their ancestors, one of which is to build houses on top of tall trees called Rumah Tinggi (lit. 'high house'). Some of the Korowai people's tree houses can even reach a height of 50 m above the ground.
Korowai may refer to: Korowai people; Korowai language; Korowai gecko; Korowai (cloak), a type of traditional Māori cloak This page was last edited on ...
During the Dutch colonial era, the Dutch administration recorded Chinese names in birth certificates and other legal documents using an adopted spelling convention that was based primarily on the Hokkien (Southern Min), the language of the majority of Chinese immigrants in the Dutch East Indies.
The mother tongue of Korwa people is the Korwa language. [5] Alternative names for this language include Ernga and Singli. [6] However, the Korwa people call their language as their Bhashi, which means local language. This language belongs to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic language family.
Distribution of Rau people in Vietnam. The Zhuang, Nùng, and Tày people are a cluster of Tai peoples with very similar customs and dress known as the Rau peoples.In China, the Zhuang are today the largest non-Han Chinese minority with around 14.5 million population in Guangxi Province alone.
An article about the Korowai by an anthropologist who had visited them was published in the Reader's Digest in August 1996. He said one of them had told him that they practice cannibalism. What makes you think the ONLY source is 60 Minutes? Michael Hardy 22:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC) People should not take offense to statements backed up by fact.