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

, or pair of languages, of

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

. 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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