Sowanda language

Sowanda
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Sandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia
Native speakers
1,200 (2000–2002)[1]
Border
Dialects
  • Waina
  • Punda-Umeda
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sow
Glottolog sowa1245[2]

Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.

There are two divergent varieties, Waina and Punda-Umeda, which may be distinct languages.

References

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


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