Yagwoia language

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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

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).

References

  1. Yagwoia reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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