Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
| Woi | |
|---|---|
| Region | Papua, Indonesia |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2012)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wbw |
| Glottolog | woii1237 |
| ELP | Woi |
Woi (Wooi) is a Malayo-Polynesian language of Papua, Indonesia mainly spoken in the villages of Wooi and Woinap on Yapen Island and the village of Yenuari on Moisnum Island.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Woi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Sawaki (2016), p. 2
Further reading[edit]
- Anceaux, J. C. (1961). The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (PDF). ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.
- Sawaki, Yusuf Willem (2016). A Grammar of Wooi: An Austronesian Language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea (PhD thesis). Australian National University. doi:10.25911/5d6c3fd1c9f50. hdl:1885/136851.
External links[edit]
- Paradisec has an open access collection from Emily Gasser that includes Woi language materials
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