Oweina language
Oweina (Owena, often misspelled "Owenia"),[3] or Waisara, after the two villages in which it is spoken, is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea.
Oweina | |
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Waisara | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Eastern Highlands Province |
Native speakers | (350 cited 1981)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wsr |
Glottolog | owen1244 [2] |
References
- Oweina at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oweina". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Tryon & Hackman (1983) Solomon Islands Languages: An Internal Classification
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