Kwanga language
Not to be confused with Kwanga language (Bantu).
"Kwanga" redirects here. For the food made from cassava root, see, see Cassava-based dishes.
| Kwanga | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik and Sandaun |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
kwj |
| Glottolog |
kwan1278[2] |
Kwanga (Gawanga) is a Sepik language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Classification
There are two main dialects, and five subdialects. The 14th (2000) edition of Ethnologue classified Apos, Bongos, Wasambu, and Yubanakor as distinct languages, and assigned them the ISO codes apo, bxy, wsm, and yuo, respectively. They have since been subsumed under Kwanga.
References
- ↑ Kwanga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwanga (Papua New Guinea)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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