Sowanda language
Sowanda is a Papuan language of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea, with a couple hundred speakers in Indonesian Papua.
| Sowanda | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province; Papua province, Indonesia |
Native speakers | 1,500 (2000–2003)[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:sow – Sowandaupi – Umeda |
| Glottolog | sowa1245 Sowandaumed1238 Umeda-Punda |
| ELP | Sowanda[2] |
Dialects
There are three divergent varieties, Waina, Punda and Umeda, which may be distinct languages. They are each spoken in three different villages of Walsa Rural LLG in Sandaun Province:[3][4]
- Waina village (3.418333°S 141.050496°E)
- Punda village (3.427183°S 141.110275°E)
- Umeda village (3.413694°S 141.094886°E), located in Punda ward
References
- Sowanda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Umeda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Endangered Languages Project data for Sowanda.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
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