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. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sowanda". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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