Ewage language

Ewage
	Notu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Oro Province
Native speakers	(13,000 cited 1988)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Binanderean Ewage; ;
Dialects	Ewage-Notu; Yega (Gona, Okeina, Okena);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nou
Glottolog	ewag1241[2]

Ewage, also known as Notu, is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. Preference for the name depends on the region. Its two dialects are Sose/Sohe (Western Plains Orokaiva) and Ifane/Ihane (Eastern Plains Orokaiva) (Smallhorn 2011:47).

References

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

Smallhorn, Jacinta Mary. 2011. The Binanderean languages of Papua New Guinea: reconstruction and subgrouping. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

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[e18-1] Ewage at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ewage-Notu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.