Cenderawasih languages

The Cenderawasih languages, approximately synonymous with West New Guinea languages, are a branch of Austronesian languages of Indonesia, found in the islands and shoreline of Cenderawasih Bay in the provinces of West Papua and Papua.

Cenderawasih Bay
West New Guinea
Geographic
distribution
Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea
Linguistic classificationAustronesian
Glottologcend1238

Most of the languages are only known from short word lists, but Biak is fairly well attested.

Languages

References

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