Bwaidoka language

Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a local lingua franca.

Bwaidoka
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMilne Bay Province (Goodenough Island, Fergusson Island)
Native speakers
6,500 (2000)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3bwd
Glottologbwai1242[2]

References

  1. Bwaidoka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bwaidoka". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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