Yapen languages

Not to be confused with Yawa languages.
Yapen
Geographic
distribution:		 Yapen Island, New Guinea
Linguistic classification:

Austronesian

Glottolog: yape1249[1]
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The Yapen languages are the branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken on Yapen Island and nearby isle of Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesian Papua. They share Yapen Ιsland with the Papuan Yawa languages.

They are:

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yapen". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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