Wagawaga language (New Guinea)
| Wagawaga | |
|---|---|
| Region | Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 1,900 (2000 census –2005)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: ylb – Yaleba (Gamadoudou) wgb – Wagawaga (Baeaula) |
| Glottolog |
waga1262[2] |
Wagawaga is an Oceanic language spoken on the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The Gamadoudou, Soma’a, and Sileba dialects may be a separate language, Yaleba.
References
- ↑ Yaleba (Gamadoudou) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Wagawaga (Baeaula) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wagawaga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.