Sewa Bay language

Sewa Bay
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province
Native speakers	(1,520 cited 1972 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Dobu–Duau Sewa Bay; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sew
Glottolog	sewa1251[2]

Sewa Bay, or Duau Pwata, is a dialectically diverse Austronesian language spoken in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua New Guinea.

References

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

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