Ikobi language explained

Ikobi
Nativename:Mena
Region:Papua New Guinea
Date:2009
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Papuan
Fam1:Papuan Gulf ?
Fam2:Kikorian
Fam3:Turama–Kikorian
Fam4:Turama
Iso3:meb
Glotto:ikob1240
Glottorefname:Ikobi

Ikobi, or Ikobi-Mena after its two varieties, is a Papuan language, or pair of languages, of Papua New Guinea. Wurm and Hattori (1981) treat the two varieties, Ikobi and Mena, as distinct languages, but Ethnologue 16 judges them to be one.