Ewage language

Ewage
Notu
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Oro Province
Native speakers
(13,000 cited 1988)[1]
Dialects
  • Ewage-Notu
  • Yega (Gona, Okeina, Okena)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nou
Glottolog ewag1241[2]

Ewage, also known as Notu, is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea. Preference for the name depends on the region. Its two dialects are Sose/Sohe (Western Plains Orokaiva) and Ifane/Ihane (Eastern Plains Orokaiva) (Smallhorn 2011:47).

References

  1. Ewage at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ewage-Notu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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