Ikobi, or Ikobi-Mena after its two varieties, 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 ...

, or pair of languages, of

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. Wurm and Hattori (1981) treat the two varieties, Ikobi and Mena, as distinct languages, but ''Ethnologue'' 16 judges them to be one.

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Turama–Kikorian languages Languages of Papua New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub