Yagwoia language

Yagwoia
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Morobe, Eastern Highlands, Gulf provinces
Native speakers
10,000 (2005)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ygw
Glottolog yagw1240[2]

Yagwoia (Yeghuye), or Kokwaiyakwa, is an Angan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are named after the five ethnicities, Iwalaqamalje, Hiqwaye, Hiqwase, Gwase, Heqwangilye (Yeqwangilje dialect).

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References

  1. Yagwoia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yagwoia". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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