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Woi
Region Papua, Indonesia
Native speakers
1,800 (2012) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wbw
Glottolog woii1237
ELP Woi

Woi (Wooi) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Papua, Indonesia mainly spoken in the villages of Wooi and Woinap on Yapen Island and the village of Yenuari on Moisnum Island. [2]

References

  1. ^ Woi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Sawaki (2016), p. 2

Further reading

  • Anceaux, J. C. (1961). The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (PDF). ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.
  • Sawaki, Yusuf Willem (2016). A Grammar of Wooi: An Austronesian Language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea (PhD thesis). Australian National University. doi: 10.25911/5d6c3fd1c9f50. hdl: 1885/136851.

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