Cenderawasih languages

Cenderawasih Bay
	West New Guinea
Geographic; distribution	Cenderawasih Bay, New Guinea
Linguistic classification	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Cenderawasih Bay; ; ; ; ;
Glottolog	cend1238

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.

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

Languages

Biakic: Biak (Numfor), Dusner, Meoswar, Roon
Yapen (see)
Southwest: Yaur–Iresim, Yeretuar

References

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