Dobu language
| Dobu | |
|---|---|
| Dobuan | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
Native speakers |
10,000 (1998)[1] 60% monolingual (1998?)[2] L2 speakers: 100,000 (1987)[1] |
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Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dob |
| Glottolog |
dobu1241[3] |
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
References
- 1 2 Dobu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Dobu language at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dobu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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