Uneapa language

Not to be confused with Balinese language.
Uneapa
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Bali Island, West New Britain
Native speakers
10,000  (1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bbn
Glottolog unea1237[2]

Uneapa (often called "Bali") is an Oceanic language spoken by about 10,000 people on the small island of Bali (Uneapa), north of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea. It is perhaps a dialect of neighboring Vitu.

References

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