Cenderawasih languages
The Cenderawasih languages, approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of Austronesian languages of Indonesia, found in the islands and shoreline of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of West Papua and Papua.
| Cenderawasih Bay | |
|---|---|
| West New Guinea | |
| Geographic distribution | Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea |
| Linguistic classification | Austronesian
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| Glottolog | cend1238[1] |
Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.
Languages
gollark: How odd.
gollark: So you should probably do something else.
gollark: PotatOS won't boot off a startup disk.
gollark: Just get another computer, `set shell.enable_disk_startup false` (or something like that), plug in a disk drive, make a simple program to automatically delete `startup` on any disk you put in.
gollark: Very easily?
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cenderawasih Bay". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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