Sowanda language

Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.

Sowanda
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionSandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia
Native speakers
1,500 (2000–2003)[1]
Border
  • Bewani Range
    • Bapi River
      • Sowanda
Dialects
  • Waina
  • Punda
  • Umeda
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
sow  Sowanda
upi  Umeda
Glottologsowa1245  Sowanda[2]
umed1238  Umeda-Punda[3]

Dialects

There are three divergent varieties, Waina, Punda and Umeda, which may be distinct languages. They are each spoken in three different villages of Walsa Rural LLG in Sandaun Province:[4][5]

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gollark: * uninstall
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gollark: Which has somehow led to me reading the bit on number theory in one of the textbooks because ???.
gollark: I'm working on Project DISCOURAGEMENT CYLINDER for potatOS.

References

  1. Sowanda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Umeda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sowanda". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Umeda-Punda". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.


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