Wagawaga language (New Guinea)

Not to be confused with Wagawaga language (Australia).
Wagawaga
Region Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers
1,900 (2000 census –2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
ylb  Yaleba (Gamadoudou)
wgb  Wagawaga (Baeaula)
Glottolog waga1262[2]

Wagawaga is an Oceanic language spoken on the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The Gamadoudou, Soma’a, and Sileba dialects may be a separate language, Yaleba.

References

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