Waropen language

Waropen
Native to Indonesia
Region West Papua
Native speakers
unknown (6,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wrp
Glottolog waro1242[2]

Waropen is an Austronesian language in the putative Cenderawasih (Geelvink Bay) of Indonesian Papua. It is fairly closely related to the Yapen languages.

References

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


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