Sewa Bay language

Sewa Bay
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Milne Bay Province
Native speakers
(1,520 cited 1972 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sew
Glottolog sewa1251[2]

Sewa Bay, or Duau Pwata, is a dialectically diverse Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea.

References

  1. Sewa Bay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sewa Bay". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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