Kwanga language

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Kwanga
Spoken in: Papua New Guinea 
Region: East Sepik and Sandaun
Total speakers: 10,000
Language family: Sepik-Ramu
 Sepik
  Middle Sepik
   Nukuma
    Kwanga
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: paa
ISO/FDIS 639-3: kwj

Kwanga is a Sepik-Ramu language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

[edit] Classification

The 14th (2000) edition of Ethnologue classified Apos, Bongos, Wasambu and Yubanakor as distinct languages, and gave them the SIL codes APO, BXY, WSM and YUO, respectively. In the 15th (2005) edition, they are all classified as dialects of Kwanga.