Yagwoia language
Yagwoia (Yeghuye), or Kokwaiyakwa, is an Angan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are named after the five ethnicities, Iwalaqamalje, Hiqwaye, Hiqwase, Gwase, Heqwangilye (Yeqwangilje dialect).
| Yagwoia | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe, Eastern Highlands, Gulf provinces |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2005)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ygw |
| Glottolog | yagw1240[2] |
Distribution
Yagwoia is spoken in:[3]
- Eastern Highlands Province: Iqwalaqamalje
- Gulf Province: Gwase
- Morobe Province: Hiqwase, Hiqwaye, and Yeqwangilje
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External links
- Paradisec have an open access collection of Yagwoia recordings. They also have a collection of Jadran Mimica recordings that contain some Yagwoia.
References
- Yagwoia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yagwoia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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.
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